Heap-based Buffer Overflow Affecting electron package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-8738839
  • published20 Feb 2025
  • disclosed19 Feb 2025
  • creditSeunghyun Lee

Introduced: 19 Feb 2025

NewCVE-2025-0999  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-122  (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 Heap-based Buffer Overflow in v8, when processing a very large number of parameters.

CVSS Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1