Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions >=12.0.0-beta.1 <12.0.13<11.4.9


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.81% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1312315
  • published1 Jul 2021
  • disclosed21 Jun 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Jun 2021

CVE-2021-30544  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 12.0.13, 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 Use After Free in BFCache in Google Chrome, which allows a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

CVSS Scores

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