Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <6.1.10>=7.0.0 <7.2.2>=8.0.0 <8.2.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.5% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-564272
  • published2 Apr 2020
  • disclosed2 Apr 2020
  • creditSemmle Security Research

Introduced: 2 Apr 2020

CVE-2020-6450  (opens in a new tab)
CVE-2020-6451  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 6.1.10, 7.2.2, 8.2.1 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. Multiple user after free vulnerabilities exists in the WebAudio component of chromium.

CVSS Scores

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