Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <15.3.5
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.91% (84th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-2330890
- published 3 Feb 2022
- disclosed 6 Jan 2022
- credit Marcin Towalski of Cisco Talos
Introduced: 6 Jan 2022
CVE-2021-38008 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade electron to version 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 Use After Free in media in Google Chrome which allows a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
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