Type Confusion Affecting electron package, versions >=13.0.0 <13.6.7 >=14.0.0 <14.2.4 >=15.0.0 <15.3.5
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.54% (78th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-2329258
- published 12 Jan 2022
- disclosed 4 Jan 2022
- credit Nan Wan, Guang Gong
Introduced: 4 Jan 2022
CVE-2021-4078 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade electron to version 13.6.7, 14.2.4, 15.3.5 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 Type Confusion in V8 in Google Chrome, which allows a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
CVSS Scores
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