Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion') Affecting electron package, versions >=20.0.0 <20.3.10>=21.0.0 <21.3.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.28% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-3160319
  • published26 Apr 2024
  • disclosed30 Nov 2022
  • creditZhenghang Xiao

Introduced: 30 Nov 2022

CVE-2022-4174  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-843  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 20.3.10, 21.3.4 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 heap corruption.

References

CVSS Scores

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