Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion') Affecting electron package, versions >=22.0.0 <22.3.7>=23.0.0 <23.3.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
2% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-5425841
  • published16 Apr 2023
  • disclosed16 Apr 2023
  • creditClément Lecigne

Introduced: 16 Apr 2023

CVE-2023-2033  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-843  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 22.3.7, 23.3.0 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 Access of Resource Using Incompatible Type ('Type Confusion') which allows a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

CVSS Scores

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