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

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.15% (63rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1253281
  • published22 Apr 2021
  • disclosed22 Apr 2021
  • creditrelease-clerk[bot]

Introduced: 22 Apr 2021

CVE-2021-21199  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

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 Aura in Google Chrome which allowed a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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