Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions >=12.0.0 <12.0.5 >=11.0.0 <11.4.4 <10.4.4
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
1.2% (86th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1253281
- published 22 Apr 2021
- disclosed 22 Apr 2021
- credit release-clerk[bot]
Introduced: 22 Apr 2021
CVE-2021-21199 Open this link in a new tabHow 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.
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