Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions >=21.0.0 <21.4.3>=22.0.0 <22.3.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.58% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-3356652
  • published23 Feb 2023
  • disclosed23 Feb 2023
  • creditOmri Bushari

Introduced: 23 Feb 2023

CVE-2023-0932  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 21.4.3, 22.3.3 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 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

version 3.1