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
2.66% (84th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-565368
  • published14 Apr 2020
  • disclosed18 Mar 2020
  • creditMan Yue Mo

Introduced: 18 Mar 2020

CVE-2020-6449  (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 via the audio component. It allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1