Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <9.4.2>=10.0.0 <10.3.1>=11.0.0 <11.2.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
7.01% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1070015
  • published3 Feb 2021
  • disclosed3 Feb 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Feb 2021

CVE-2021-21122  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 9.4.2, 10.3.1, 11.2.2 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 via the Blink component in chromium.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1