Type Confusion Affecting electron package, versions <13.6.3 >=14.0.0 <14.2.2 >=15.0.0 <15.3.3
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.38% (73rd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-1930826
- published 9 Jan 2022
- disclosed 25 Nov 2021
- credit Polaris Feng and SGFvamll
Introduced: 25 Nov 2021
CVE-2021-38007 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade electron
to version 13.6.3, 14.2.2, 15.3.3 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 Type Confusion in V8. This allows a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.