Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions >=14.0.0 <14.1.1>=13.0.0 <13.5.2<12.2.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Attacked
EPSS
34.89% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1910985
  • published4 Nov 2021
  • disclosed4 Nov 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 Nov 2021

CVE-2021-37975  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 14.1.1, 13.5.2, 12.2.2 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 heap corruption through a crafted HTML page.

CVSS Base Scores

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