Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions >=25.0.0 <25.9.5 >=26.0.0 <26.6.0
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.23% (62nd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-6057536
- published 16 Nov 2023
- disclosed 8 Nov 2023
- credit Huang Xilin
Introduced: 8 Nov 2023
CVE-2023-5996 Open this link in a new tabHow 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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