Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions >=25.0.0 <25.9.5>=26.0.0 <26.6.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.33% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-6057536
  • published16 Nov 2023
  • disclosed8 Nov 2023
  • creditHuang Xilin

Introduced: 8 Nov 2023

CVE-2023-5996  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 25.9.5, 26.6.0 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 the WebAudio component. An attacker can potentially exploit heap corruption by crafting a malicious HTML page. This is only exploitable if the user visits the crafted HTML page.

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