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

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.43% (75th percentile)
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NVD
8.8 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-2992453
  • published 25 Aug 2022
  • disclosed 25 Aug 2022
  • credit Cassidy Kim
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Introduced: 25 Aug 2022

CVE-2022-2855 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-416 Open this link 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.