Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <16.2.4 >=17.0.0-alpha.1 <17.4.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.44% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-2774694
  • published 18 May 2022
  • disclosed 24 Apr 2022
  • credit ppontes

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 16.2.4, 17.4.2 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 the BFCache, due to the attempts to cache an interstitial which results in a crash.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
8.8 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

8.8 high