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Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions >=6.0.0 <6.1.12 >=7.0.0 <7.3.0

0.0
critical

Snyk CVSS

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

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.27% (68th percentile)
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NVD
9.6 critical
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Red Hat
9.6 critical

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-569109
  • published 17 Apr 2020
  • disclosed 17 Apr 2020
  • credit Leecraso and Guang Gong of Alpha Lab, Qihoo 360
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Introduced: 17 Apr 2020

CVE-2020-6457 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-416 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 6.1.12, 7.3.0 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. A Use after free vulnerability exists in unknown areas of the speech recognizer component.