Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions >=20.0.0 <20.3.9 >=21.0.0 <21.3.4
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.66% (80th
percentile)
Do your applications use this vulnerable package?
In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.
Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-3180031
- published 14 Dec 2022
- disclosed 14 Dec 2022
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 14 Dec 2022
CVE-2022-4438 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade electron to version 20.3.9, 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 Use After Free in Blink Frames by allowing a remote attacker who convinced the user to engage in specific UI interactions to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.
References
CVSS Scores
version 3.1