Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <13.6.6>=14.0.0 <14.2.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Attacked
EPSS
7.84% (94th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-2322001
  • published3 Feb 2022
  • disclosed20 Dec 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Dec 2021

CVE-2021-4102  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 13.6.6, 14.2.4 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 V8.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1