Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <26.6.8 >=27.0.0 <27.3.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.08% (36th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-6226524
  • published 2 Feb 2024
  • disclosed 24 Jan 2024
  • credit Huang Xilin of Ant Group Light-Year Security Lab

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 26.6.8, 27.3.1 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 the Web Audio feature. An attacker can potentially exploit heap corruption by crafting a malicious HTML page.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

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

8.8 high