Heap-based Buffer Overflow Affecting electron package, versions <21.4.4 >=22.0.0 <22.3.5
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.21% (59th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-3370271
- published 8 Mar 2023
- disclosed 8 Mar 2023
- credit Sergei Glazunov
Introduced: 8 Mar 2023
CVE-2023-1219 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade electron to version 21.4.4, 22.3.5 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 Metrics by allowing a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.