GHSA-c2gp-86p4-5935

Use-After-Free in puppeteer

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2019-5786

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	puppeteer	< 1.13.0	1.13.0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

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

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

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