Out-of-Bounds Affecting electron package, versions <22.3.23 >=23.0.0 <24.8.2 >=25.0.0 <25.8.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.59% (79th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-5880432
  • published 28 Aug 2023
  • disclosed 23 Aug 2023
  • credit Sergei Glazunov

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 22.3.23, 24.8.2, 25.8.0 or higher.

Overview

electron is a framework which lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds when the V8 engine processes a carefully crafted HTML page. An attacker can perform an out of bounds memory read, thereby potentially gaining unauthorized access to sensitive information.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
8.6 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    Low
  • Availability (A)
    Low
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NVD

8.1 high