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Use-After-Free in puppeteer

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Sep 2, 2020 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 9, 2023

Package

npm puppeteer (npm)

Affected versions

< 1.13.0

Patched versions

1.13.0

Description

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

Reviewed Aug 31, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Sep 2, 2020
Last updated Jan 9, 2023

Severity

Moderate
6.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2019-5786

GHSA ID

GHSA-c2gp-86p4-5935

Source code

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