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Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <19.1.7 >=20.0.0 <20.3.7

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.25% (65th percentile)
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NVD
8.8 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-3111881
  • published 9 Nov 2022
  • disclosed 9 Nov 2022
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 9 Nov 2022

CVE-2022-3887 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-416 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 19.1.7, 20.3.7 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 Web Workers, which allows a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.