Type Confusion Affecting electron package, versions <15.5.0>=16.0.0 <16.2.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
1.53% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-2434822
  • published29 Mar 2022
  • disclosed29 Mar 2022
  • creditunknown

Introduced: 29 Mar 2022

CVE-2022-1096  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-843  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 15.5.0, 16.2.0 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 due to mishandling of interceptors which can lead to out-of-bounds memory access.

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