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CVE-2024-29900

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-29900 is a high-severity memory leak vulnerability affecting Electron Packager, which bundles Electron applications. The flaw causes a small, random segment of Node.js heap memory to be leaked into the final executable, potentially exposing sensitive information like environment variables or secrets. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction required, leading to a high confidentiality impact. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE. The issue is patched in Electron Packager version 18.3.1.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
18.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:openjsf:packager:18.3.0:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.63%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
46.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0063 is in the 23rd percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: @electron/packagerFixed in: 18.3.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-34h3-8mw4-qw57high

@electron/packager's build process memory potentially leaked into final executable

Mar 29, 2024

References

github.com / electron/packager/commit/d421d4bd3ced889a4143c5c3ab6d95e3be249eee
Patch
github.com / electron/packager/security/advisories/GHSA-34h3-8mw4-qw57
Vendor Advisory