Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <29.4.3
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EPSS
0.05% (24th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-7411387
- published 28 Jun 2024
- disclosed 11 Jun 2024
- credit wgslfuzz
Introduced: 11 Jun 2024
CVE-2024-5831 Open this link in a new tabHow 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 via the Dawn process. An attacker can potentially exploit 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
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