MEDIUM6.5

GHSA-c2gp-86p4-5935

Use-After-Free in puppeteer

Quick fix

GHSA-c2gp-86p4-5935 — puppeteer: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

npm install puppeteer@1.13.0

Details

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.

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Affected packages

npm/puppeteer

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 1.13.0

Fixnpm install puppeteer@1.13.0

References

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]