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

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.53% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-5663563
  • published 31 May 2023
  • disclosed 31 May 2023
  • credit Huyna

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 Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
9.8 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

8.8 high