Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions >=11.0.0 <11.4.4 <10.4.4
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
3.99% (93rd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1252279
- published 28 Apr 2021
- disclosed 20 Apr 2021
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 20 Apr 2021
CVE-2021-21206 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade electron to version 11.4.4, 10.4.4 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 via a vulnerability that exists in Blink in Chromium. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page, trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code on the system.
CVSS Scores
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