7.5

CVE-2024-29900: electron packager Resource Leak

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighAnalyzed
AliasesGHSA-34h3-8mw4-qw57
Published 29-03-2024Last modified 02-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-29900 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Resource Leak vulnerability in electron packager. EPSS estimates a 0.63% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 49.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.63%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 29-03-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 02-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.63%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

49%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.63% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.63%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

@electron1 product
  • packager≥ 18.3.0, < 18.3.1
Electron1 product
Openjsf1 product

3 vendors · 3 products

References

4 links