Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions >=6.0.0 <6.1.12>=7.0.0 <7.3.0>=8.0.0 <8.3.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (62nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-569042
  • published29 Apr 2020
  • disclosed27 Apr 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Apr 2020

CVE-2020-6461  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 6.1.12, 7.3.0, 8.3.0 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 storage.

CVSS Scores

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