Out-of-Bounds Affecting electron package, versions >=25.0.0 <25.7.0>=26.0.0 <26.1.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.39% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-5883035
  • published3 Aug 2023
  • disclosed3 Aug 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Aug 2023

CVE-2023-4073  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 25.7.0, 26.1.0 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 a remote attacker exploits heap corruption via a crafted HTML page. An attacker can cause an out of bounds memory access in ANGLE.

CVSS Scores

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