Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <27.3.11 >=28.0.0 <28.3.1 >=29.0.0 <29.3.1


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-6613084
  • published 17 Apr 2024
  • disclosed 10 Apr 2024
  • credit wgslfuzz

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 27.3.11, 28.3.1, 29.3.1 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 due to improper handling of objects in memory in the Dawn component. An attacker can cause heap corruption and potentially execute arbitrary code by convincing a user to visit a specially crafted 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)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High