Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions >=22.0.0 <22.3.13>=23.0.0 <23.3.7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
24.66% (98th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-5596902
  • published22 May 2023
  • disclosed22 May 2023
  • creditasnine

Introduced: 22 May 2023

CVE-2023-2725  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 22.3.13, 23.3.7 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 Guest View allowing an attacker who convinced a user to install a malicious extension to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

CVSS Base Scores

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