Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <6.1.10 >=7.0.0 <7.2.2 >=8.0.0 <8.2.1
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
1.23% (86th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-565368
- published 14 Apr 2020
- disclosed 18 Mar 2020
- credit Man Yue Mo
Introduced: 18 Mar 2020
CVE-2020-6449 Open this link in a new tabHow 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.
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