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Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <27.3.9 >=28.0.0-alpha.1 <28.2.10 >=29.0.0-alpha.1 <29.2.0

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.05% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-6515652
  • published 4 Apr 2024
  • disclosed 26 Mar 2024
  • credit Seunghyun Lee
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Introduced: 26 Mar 2024

CVE-2024-2886 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-416 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 27.3.9, 28.2.10, 29.2.0 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 due to improper handling in the WebCodecs component. An attacker can achieve arbitrary read/write access by crafting a malicious HTML page.

CVSS Scores

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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)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High