HighGHSA-qqvq-6xgj-jw8gCVE-2023-5217

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

Published 28 Sept 2023 · Updated 10 Sept 2026

Affected packages

electronnpm
Affected
<22.3.25
Fixed in
22.3.25
Update to the fixed version for your release line, for example:npm install electron@22.3.25
electronnpm
Affected
>=24.0.0 <24.8.5
Fixed in
24.8.5
Update to the fixed version for your release line, for example:npm install electron@24.8.5
electronnpm
Affected
>=25.0.0 <25.8.4
Fixed in
25.8.4
Update to the fixed version for your release line, for example:npm install electron@25.8.4
electronnpm
Affected
>=26.0.0 <26.2.4
Fixed in
26.2.4
Update to the fixed version for your release line, for example:npm install electron@26.2.4
electronnpm
Affected
>=27.0.0-alpha.1 <27.0.0-beta.8
Fixed in
27.0.0-beta.8
Update to the fixed version for your release line, for example:npm install electron@27.0.0-beta.8

Details

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.

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References

Advisory data from OSV.dev (opens OSV.dev in a new tab), refreshed daily.