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Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <16.0.0

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.54% (78th percentile)
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NVD
8.8 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-2329162
  • published 7 Jan 2022
  • disclosed 4 Jan 2022
  • credit Sergei Glazunov
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Introduced: 4 Jan 2022

CVE-2021-38006 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-416 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 16.0.0 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 the storage foundation, which allows a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page