Use-After-Free in puppeteer

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

Update the puppeteer package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 1.13.0
• Patched version(s): 1.13.0

References

• GHSA-c2gp-86p4-5935
• blog.exodusintel.com
• chromereleases.googleblog.com
• crbug.com
• snyk.io
• www.npmjs.com
• CVE-2019-5786
• CWE-416
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

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Tags:

npm

puppeteer