Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <15.5.6 >=16.0.0-alpha.1 <16.2.7 >=17.0.0-alpha.1 <17.4.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.36% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-2824110
  • published 18 May 2022
  • disclosed 13 May 2022
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 15.5.6, 16.2.7, 17.4.5 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 due to improper cache state validation after the XFB buffer was deleted.

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