Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions >=18.0.0 <18.3.15>=19.0.0 <19.1.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.78% (55th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-3033934
  • published27 Sept 2022
  • disclosed27 Sept 2022
  • creditMerdroidSG

Introduced: 27 Sep 2022

CVE-2022-3198  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 18.3.15, 19.1.1 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 PDF by allowing a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted PDF file.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1