Double Free Affecting electron package, versions >=22.0.0 <22.3.10 >=23.0.0 <23.3.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.13% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-5563118
  • published 14 Apr 2023
  • disclosed 11 Apr 2023
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 22.3.10, 23.3.3 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 Double Free and other issues in the xmlDictComputeFastKey() function, which behaves nondeterministically on empty string inputs.

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

6.5 medium
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SUSE

5.9 medium
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Red Hat

5.9 medium