Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <19.1.7 >=20.0.0 <20.3.7


Severity

0.0
high
0
10

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.26% (66th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-3111876
  • published 9 Nov 2022
  • disclosed 9 Nov 2022
  • credit gzobqq@

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 19.1.7, 20.3.7 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 V8, which allows a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

7.6 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    Required
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    Low
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    Low
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NVD

8.8 high