Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions >=10.0.0-beta.1 <10.2.0 <9.4.4
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.16% (53rd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1050424
- published 13 Dec 2020
- disclosed 11 Dec 2020
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 11 Dec 2020
CVE-2020-16023 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade electron to version 10.2.0, 9.4.4 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. Since JavaScript may detach the underlying buffers, they need to be checked to ensure they're still valid before using them for decoding.
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