Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <15.3.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.36% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-2330890
  • published3 Feb 2022
  • disclosed6 Jan 2022
  • creditMarcin Towalski of Cisco Talos

Introduced: 6 Jan 2022

CVE-2021-38008  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How 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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1