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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.59% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1536587
  • published4 Aug 2021
  • disclosed4 Aug 2021
  • creditWeipeng Jiang (@Krace)

Introduced: 4 Aug 2021

CVE-2021-30572  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 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 in Autofill.

CVSS Base Scores

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