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


Severity

0.0
high
0
10

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.23% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-6057536
  • published 16 Nov 2023
  • disclosed 8 Nov 2023
  • credit Huang Xilin

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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

8.8 high