<p>Upgrade <code>electron</code> to version 29.4.3 or higher.</p>

Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <29.4.3

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0.05% (24^th percentile)

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Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-7411386
published 28 Jun 2024
disclosed 11 Jun 2024
credit wgslfuzz

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Introduced: 11 Jun 2024

CVE-2024-5832 Open this link in a new tab CWE-416 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 29.4.3 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 the improper handling of memory in the Dawn process. An attacker can cause heap corruption by crafting a malicious HTML page.

Note: 126.0.6478.56 is the fixed version for Windows and Mac. Version 126.0.6478.54 fixes the vulnerability in Linux

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1

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