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Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <27.3.5 >=28.0.0 <28.2.6

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.05% (16th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high
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SUSE
5.9 medium
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Red Hat
7.5 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-6346758
  • published 1 Mar 2024
  • disclosed 5 Feb 2024
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 5 Feb 2024

CVE-2024-25062 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-416 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade electron to version 27.3.5, 28.2.6 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 xmlTextReader module. An attacker can cause denial of service by processing crafted XML documents with DTD validation and XInclude expansion enabled.