Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <9.4.0 >=10.0.0 <10.2.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.16% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1049547
  • published 19 Nov 2020
  • disclosed 17 Nov 2020
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 9.4.0, 10.2.0 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. A use after free flaw was found in the PPAPI component of the Chromium browser.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
8.8 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

9.6 critical
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Red Hat

8.8 high