Integer Overflow or Wraparound Affecting electron package, versions <27.3.11 >=28.0.0 <28.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.05% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-6613087
  • published 17 Apr 2024
  • disclosed 19 Feb 2024
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 27.3.11, 28.3.1 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 Integer Overflow or Wraparound when decoding videos with a large frame size. An attacker can cause memory corruption within the AV1 decoder by providing a specially crafted video file.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
6.8 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    Low
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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SUSE

6.3 medium