Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions >=13.0.0 <13.1.8>=12.0.0 <12.0.16<11.4.11


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.36% (68th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1536579
  • published4 Aug 2021
  • disclosed4 Aug 2021
  • creditChris Salls (@salls) of Makai Security

Introduced: 4 Aug 2021

CVE-2021-30569  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 13.1.8, 12.0.16, 11.4.11 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 sqlite. This can allow a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

CVSS Base Scores

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