Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion') Affecting electron package, versions >=19.0.0 <19.1.4>=20.0.0 <20.3.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.16% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-3098879
  • published2 Nov 2022
  • disclosed2 Nov 2022
  • creditsrodulv, ZNMchtss

Introduced: 2 Nov 2022

CVE-2022-3652  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-843  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 19.1.4, 20.3.4 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 Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion') in V8, via a crafted HTML page.

CVSS Scores

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