Heap-based Buffer Overflow Affecting electron package, versions <22.3.25>=23.0.0 <24.8.5>=25.0.0 <25.8.4>=26.0.0 <26.2.4>=27.0.0-alpha.1 <27.0.0-beta.8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
24.5% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-5923343
  • published25 Jun 2024
  • disclosed28 Sept 2023
  • creditClément Lecigne

Introduced: 28 Sep 2023

CVE-2023-5217  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-122  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 22.3.25, 24.8.5, 25.8.4, 26.2.4, 27.0.0-beta.8 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 Heap-based Buffer Overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx.

CVSS Scores

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