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
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
24.5% (97th
percentile)
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- published 25 Jun 2024
- disclosed 28 Sep 2023
- credit Clément Lecigne
Introduced: 28 Sep 2023
CVE-2023-5217 Open this link in a new tabHow 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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