CVE-2024-29900 Information

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.

Reference

https://github.com/electron/packager/security/advisories/GHSA-34h3-8mw4-qw57 https://github.com/electron/packager/commit/d421d4bd3ced889a4143c5c3ab6d95e3be249eee