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

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.5% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-564272
  • published 2 Apr 2020
  • disclosed 2 Apr 2020
  • credit Semmle Security Research

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

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

8.8 high