Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions >=10.0.0-beta.1 <11.2.1<9.4.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
6.88% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1064561
  • published24 Jan 2021
  • disclosed24 Jan 2021
  • creditNan Wang, Guang Gong

Introduced: 24 Jan 2021

CVE-2021-21120  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 11.2.1, 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. It hands sub-queries with both a correlated WHERE clause and a HAVING 0 clause where the parent query is itself an aggregate.

CVSS Base Scores

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