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Electron affected by libvpx's heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Sep 28, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 15, 2024

Package

npm electron (npm)

Affected versions

< 22.3.25
>= 24.0.0, < 24.8.5
>= 25.0.0, < 25.8.4
>= 26.0.0, < 26.2.4
>= 27.0.0-alpha.1, < 27.0.0-beta.8

Patched versions

22.3.25
24.8.5
25.8.4
26.2.4
27.0.0-beta.8

Description

Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx in Google Chrome prior to 117.0.5938.132 and libvpx 1.13.1 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Sep 28, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 28, 2023
Reviewed Oct 5, 2023
Last updated Feb 15, 2024

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

71.762%
(98th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-5217

GHSA ID

GHSA-qqvq-6xgj-jw8g

Source code

Credits

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