Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <2.0.18>=3.0.0 <3.0.16>=3.0.0 <3.1.6>=4.0.0 <4.0.8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Attacked
EPSS
61.54% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-174045
  • published31 Mar 2019
  • disclosed7 Mar 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Mar 2019

CVE-2019-5786  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 2.0.18, 3.0.16, 3.1.6, 4.0.8 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 the Chromium FileReader.

Note: This vulnerability affects all software based on Chromium, including Electron.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1