Use After Free Affecting org.webjars.npm:electron package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (4th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-15876713
  • published3 Apr 2026
  • disclosed3 Apr 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Apr 2026

NewCVE-2026-34770  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

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 in the powerMonitor function. An attacker can cause memory corruption or application crashes by triggering session-change events on Windows or system shutdown events on macOS after the native object has been garbage-collected, leading to dereferencing of freed memory.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1