Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <20.3.12 >=21.0.0 <21.4.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    1.81% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-3252475
  • published 28 Jan 2023
  • disclosed 28 Jan 2023
  • credit Cassidy Kim

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 20.3.12, 21.4.2 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 WebRTC, causing heap corruption.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

8.8 high