Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <13.6.6>=14.0.0 <14.2.4>=15.0.0 <15.3.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.89% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-2338684
  • published17 Jan 2022
  • disclosed13 Jan 2022
  • creditSergei Glazunov of Google Project Zero

Introduced: 13 Jan 2022

CVE-2021-4057  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 13.6.6, 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 Use After Free via file API in Google Chrome prior to 96.0.4664.93. It allows a remote attacker who have compromised the renderer process to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

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