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

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.1% (41st percentile)
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NVD
8.8 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-6564965
  • published 23 Apr 2024
  • disclosed 4 Apr 2024
  • credit Tao Yan, Edouard Bochin
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Introduced: 4 Apr 2024

New CVE-2024-3159 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-119 Open this link 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.