Out-of-bounds Write Affecting electron package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-8738830
  • published20 Feb 2025
  • disclosed22 Jan 2025
  • credit303f06e3

Introduced: 22 Jan 2025

NewCVE-2025-0611  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

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 Write via a crafted HTML page. An attacker can potentially exploit heap corruption by sending a specially crafted HTML page to the victim.

CVSS Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1