Improper Control of a Resource Through its Lifetime Affecting electron package, versions <13.6.8>=14.0.0 <14.2.4>=15.0.0 <15.3.6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-2332176
  • published6 Feb 2022
  • disclosed11 Jan 2022
  • creditAki Helin

Introduced: 11 Jan 2022

CVE-2021-4100  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-664  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 13.6.8, 14.2.4, 15.3.6 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 Improper Control of a Resource Through its Lifetime in the FramebufferAttachment::mRenderToTextureSamples method in Angle. It was never updated if the renderbuffer storage was changed after attaching to framebuffer.

CVSS Scores

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