Use After Free Affecting org.webjars.npm:electron package, versions [,12.0.5)
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
1.2% (85th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-1253283
- published 22 Apr 2021
- disclosed 20 Apr 2021
- credit Bohan Liu of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab, Moon Liang of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab
Introduced: 20 Apr 2021
CVE-2021-21195 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade org.webjars.npm:electron
to version 12.0.5 or higher.
Overview
org.webjars.npm:electron is a framework which lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free via Chrome which allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.