Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <18.3.11>=19.0.0 <19.0.15


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.82% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-2992453
  • published25 Aug 2022
  • disclosed25 Aug 2022
  • creditCassidy Kim

Introduced: 25 Aug 2022

CVE-2022-2855  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 18.3.11, 19.0.15 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 when glBufferData redefines a buffer and the new buffer is smaller than the old buffer.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1