Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Affecting electron package, versions <29.3.0


Severity

0.0
high
0
10

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.06% (26th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-6579648
  • published 12 Apr 2024
  • disclosed 6 Apr 2024
  • credit Zhenghang Xiao

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 29.3.0 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 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer due to an inappropriate implementation in the V8 engine. An attacker can potentially perform out of bounds memory access by crafting a malicious HTML page.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

8.8 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

8.8 high