Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions >=22.0.0 <22.3.4>=23.0.0 <23.2.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.52% (40th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-3369913
  • published8 Mar 2023
  • disclosed8 Mar 2023
  • creditJaehun Jeong

Introduced: 8 Mar 2023

CVE-2023-1213  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 22.3.4, 23.2.1 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 Swiftshader, by allowing a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1