Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <26.6.3>=27.0.0 <27.2.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.19% (58th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-6105391
  • published22 Dec 2023
  • disclosed6 Dec 2023
  • creditCassidy Kim

Introduced: 6 Dec 2023

CVE-2023-6508  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 26.6.3, 27.2.0 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 Media Stream process. An attacker can potentially exploit heap corruption by crafting a malicious HTML page.

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