Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <37.2.6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (24th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-11502178
  • published7 Aug 2025
  • disclosed31 Jul 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 31 Jul 2025

CVE-2025-8292  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 37.2.6 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 MediaStreamTrackImpl. An attacker can cause heap corruption by enticing a user to visit a specially crafted HTML page.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1