Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <9.4.1>=10.0.0 <10.3.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1050999
  • published14 Jan 2021
  • disclosed14 Dec 2020
  • creditAndrey Belenko

Introduced: 14 Dec 2020

CVE-2020-16037  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 9.4.1, 10.3.2 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. An unknown vunerability exists in Chrome.

CVSS Scores

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