CVE-2024-29900

High

Description

Electron Packager bundles Electron-based application source code with a renamed Electron executable and supporting files into folders ready for distribution. A random segment of ~1-10kb of Node.js heap memory allocated either side of a known buffer will be leaked into the final executable. This memory _could_ contain sensitive information such as environment variables, secrets files, etc. This issue is patched in 18.3.1.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.5
Exploit probability—
ProductOpenjsf Packager
PublishedMar 29, 2024
First seenMar 29, 2024
Weakness typeCWE-402CWE-402

How to fix

Update
  • @electron/packager18.3.1 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
openjsf packager18.3.0—
@electron/packagernpm18.3.0 ≤ v < 18.3.118.3.1

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