Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions >=22.0.0 <22.3.24>=24.0.0 <24.8.2>=25.0.0 <25.8.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.45% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-5882229
  • published30 Aug 2023
  • disclosed29 Aug 2023
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Aug 2023

CVE-2023-4572  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 22.3.24, 24.8.2, 25.8.0 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 via the MediaStream component. An attacker can potentially exploit heap corruption by crafting a malicious HTML page.

CVSS Scores

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