Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion') Affecting electron package, versions >=12.0.0-beta.1 <12.0.12<11.4.9


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
25.93% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1312314
  • published1 Jul 2021
  • disclosed21 Jun 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Jun 2021

CVE-2021-30551  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-843  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 12.0.12, 11.4.9 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 Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion'). Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome allows a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

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