Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions >=22.0.0 <22.3.13>=23.0.0 <23.3.7>=24.0.0 <24.5.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.92% (56th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-5663563
  • published31 May 2023
  • disclosed31 May 2023
  • creditHuyna

Introduced: 31 May 2023

CVE-2023-2931  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 22.3.13, 23.3.7, 24.5.1 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 in PDF in Google Chrome, which allowing a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted PDF file.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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