Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <26.6.3 >=27.0.0 <27.2.0
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.18% (56th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-6105391
- published 22 Dec 2023
- disclosed 6 Dec 2023
- credit Cassidy Kim
Introduced: 6 Dec 2023
CVE-2023-6508 Open this link in a new tabHow 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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