Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <29.4.5 >=30.0.0 <30.2.0
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.05% (17th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-7443355
- published 11 Jul 2024
- disclosed 24 Jun 2024
- credit wgslfuzz
Introduced: 24 Jun 2024
CVE-2024-6290 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade electron to version 29.4.5, 30.2.0 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 the improper handling of memory in the Dawn component. An attacker can cause heap corruption and potentially execute arbitrary code by crafting a malicious HTML page.