Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions >=22.0.0 <22.3.13>=25.0.0-alpha.1 <25.0.0-beta.8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
15.43% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-5596906
  • published22 May 2023
  • disclosed22 May 2023
  • creditasnine

Introduced: 22 May 2023

CVE-2023-2723  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 22.3.13, 25.0.0-beta.8 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 DevTools allowing a remote attacker who had compromised the renderer process to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

CVSS Base Scores

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