Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions >=20.0.0 <20.3.9>=21.0.0 <21.3.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.7% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-3180031
  • published14 Dec 2022
  • disclosed14 Dec 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Dec 2022

CVE-2022-4438  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How 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.

CVSS Base Scores

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