Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions >=26.0.0 <26.6.4 >=27.0.0 <27.2.1
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.08% (36th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-6137903
- published 26 Apr 2024
- disclosed 14 Dec 2023
- credit Fudan University
Introduced: 14 Dec 2023
CVE-2023-6704 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade electron to version 26.6.4, 27.2.1 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 via a crafted image file where colorProperties could be pointing to a dangling pointer if findAlphaItem() resizes the meta.items array. An attacker can potentially exploit heap corruption by inducing the application to reference memory after it has been freed.
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