Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions >=12.0.0 <12.0.5 >=11.0.0 <11.4.4 <10.4.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    1.2% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1252280
  • published 22 Apr 2021
  • disclosed 20 Apr 2021
  • credit Bohan Liu of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab, Moon Liang of Tencent Security Xuanwu Lab

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 12.0.5, 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 Chrome which allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

8.8 high