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Heap-based Buffer Overflow Affecting electron package, versions <8.5.3 >=9.0.0-beta.1 <9.3.3 >=10.0.0-beta.1 <10.1.5

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Mature
    EPSS 2.55% (91st percentile)
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NVD
6.5 medium
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SUSE
8.1 high
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Red Hat
8.6 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1021884
  • published 21 Oct 2020
  • disclosed 21 Oct 2020
  • credit Sergei Glazunov of Google Project Zero
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Introduced: 21 Oct 2020

CVE-2020-15999 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-119 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 8.5.3, 9.3.3, 10.1.5 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 Heap-based Buffer Overflow in Freetype.