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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
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-1050999
  • published 14 Jan 2021
  • disclosed 14 Dec 2020
  • credit Andrey Belenko

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

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

8.8 high