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

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-ELECTRON-6613084
  • published17 Apr 2024
  • disclosed10 Apr 2024
  • creditwgslfuzz

Introduced: 10 Apr 2024

CVE-2024-3515  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

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.

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