Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <8.5.4>=9.0.0 <9.3.5>=10.0.0 <10.1.6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Attacked
EPSS
2.75% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1041745
  • published19 Nov 2020
  • disclosed11 Nov 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Nov 2020

CVE-2020-16017  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 8.5.4, 9.3.5, 10.1.6 or higher.

Overview

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 the site isolation.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1