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

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-5563118
  • published14 Apr 2023
  • disclosed11 Apr 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Apr 2023

CVE-2023-29469  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-415  (opens in a new tab)

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

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