Use After Free Affecting puppeteer package, versions <1.13.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
96.94% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-PUPPETEER-174321
  • published31 Mar 2019
  • disclosed7 Mar 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Mar 2019

CVE-2019-5786  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade puppeteer to version 1.13.0 or higher.

Overview

puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free via the Chromium FileReader.

Note: This vulnerability affects all software based on Chromium, including Electron.

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