Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <19.1.7 >=20.0.0 <20.3.7
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.31% (71st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-3111880
- published 9 Nov 2022
- disclosed 9 Nov 2022
- credit Peter Nemeth
Introduced: 9 Nov 2022
CVE-2022-3888 Open this link in a new tabHow 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 WebCodecs, which allows a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
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