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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.69% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-3252475
  • published28 Jan 2023
  • disclosed28 Jan 2023
  • creditCassidy Kim

Introduced: 28 Jan 2023

CVE-2023-0472  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

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 Base Scores

version 3.1