MEDIUM 6.5

GHSA-c2gp-86p4-5935

Use-After-Free in puppeteer

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: 0 Fixed in: 1.13.0

Fix npm 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]