Versions of puppeteer prior to 1.13.0 are vulnerable to the Use-After-Free vulnerability in Chromium (CVE-2019-5786). The Chromium FileReader API is vulnerable to Use-After-Free which may lead to Remote Code Execution.

Recommendation

Upgrade to version 1.13.0 or later.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-5786
• puppeteer/puppeteer#4141
• https://blog.exodusintel.com/2019/03/20/cve-2019-5786-analysis-and-exploitation/
• https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2019/03/stable-channel-update-for-desktop.html
• https://crbug.com/936448
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-PUPPETEER-174321
• https://www.npmjs.com/advisories/824