Out-of-Bounds Affecting electron package, versions <27.3.10>=28.0.0 <28.3.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-6564965
  • published23 Apr 2024
  • disclosed4 Apr 2024
  • creditTao Yan, Edouard Bochin

Introduced: 4 Apr 2024

CVE-2024-3159  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 27.3.10, 28.3.0 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 memory access in V8 component. This vulnerability allowed a remote attacker to perform arbitrary read/write via a crafted HTML page.

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