Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <27.3.9 >=28.0.0-alpha.1 <28.2.10 >=29.0.0-alpha.1 <29.2.0
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.05% (15th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-JS-ELECTRON-6515652
- published 4 Apr 2024
- disclosed 26 Mar 2024
- credit Seunghyun Lee
Introduced: 26 Mar 2024
CVE-2024-2886 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade electron
to version 27.3.9, 28.2.10, 29.2.0 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 improper handling in the WebCodecs
component. An attacker can achieve arbitrary read/write access by crafting a malicious HTML page.