Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions >=25.0.0 <25.9.6 >=26.0.0 <26.6.1
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.18% (56th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-6062177
- published 23 Nov 2023
- disclosed 15 Nov 2023
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 15 Nov 2023
CVE-2023-5997 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade electron to version 25.9.6, 26.6.1 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 Garbage Collection. An attacker can potentially exploit heap corruption by crafting a malicious HTML page.
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