Update dependency electron to 18.3.7 [SECURITY] #3904

balena-ci · 2022-12-06T23:56:52Z

This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Type	Update	Change
electron	devDependencies	major	`12.2.3` -> `18.3.7`

GitHub Vulnerability Alerts

CVE-2022-21718

Impact

This vulnerability allows renderers to obtain access to a random bluetooth device via the web bluetooth API if the app has not configured a custom select-bluetooth-device event handler. The device that is accessed is random and the attacker would have no way of selecting a specific device.

All current stable versions of Electron are affected.

Patches

This has been patched and the following Electron versions contain the fix:

17.0.0-alpha.6
16.0.6
15.3.5
14.2.4
13.6.6

Workarounds

Adding this code to your app can workaround the issue.

app.on('web-contents-created', (event, webContents) => {
  webContents.on('select-bluetooth-device', (event, devices, callback) => {
    // Prevent default behavior
    event.preventDefault();
    // Cancel the request
    callback('');
  });
});

For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, email us at security@electronjs.org.

CVE-2022-29247

Impact

This vulnerability allows a renderer with JS execution to obtain access to a new renderer process with nodeIntegrationInSubFrames enabled which in turn allows effective access to ipcRenderer.

Please note the misleadingly named nodeIntegrationInSubFrames option does not implicitly grant Node.js access rather it depends on the existing sandbox setting. If your application is sandboxed then nodeIntegrationInSubFrames just gives access to the sandboxed renderer APIs (which includes ipcRenderer).

If your application then additionally exposes IPC messages without IPC senderFrame validation that perform privileged actions or return confidential data this access to ipcRenderer can in turn compromise your application / user even with the sandbox enabled.

Patches

This has been patched and the following Electron versions contain the fix:

18.0.0-beta.6
17.2.0
16.2.6
15.5.5

Workarounds

Ensure that all IPC message handlers appropriately validate senderFrame as per our security tutorial here.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, email us at security@electronjs.org.

CVE-2022-29257

Impact

This vulnerability allows attackers who have control over a given apps update server / update storage to serve maliciously crafted update packages that pass the code signing validation check but contain malicious code in some components.

Please note that this kind of attack would require significant privileges in your own auto updating infrastructure and the ease of that attack entirely depends on your infrastructure security.

Patches

This has been patched and the following Electron versions contain the fix:

18.0.0-beta.6
17.2.0
16.2.0
15.5.0

Workarounds

There are no workarounds for this issue, please update to a patched version of Electron.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, email us at security@electronjs.org

CVE-2022-36077

Impact

When following a redirect, Electron delays a check for redirecting to file:// URLs from other schemes. The contents of the file is not available to the renderer following the redirect, but if the redirect target is a SMB URL such as file://some.website.com/, then in some cases, Windows will connect to that server and attempt NTLM authentication, which can include sending hashed credentials.

Patches

This issue has been fixed in all current stable versions of Electron. Specifically, these versions contain the fixes:

21.0.0-beta.1
20.0.1
19.0.11
18.3.7

We recommend all apps upgrade to the latest stable version of Electron.

Workarounds

If upgrading isn't possible, this issue can be addressed without upgrading by preventing redirects to file:// URLs in the WebContents.on('will-redirect') event, for all WebContents:

app.on('web-contents-created', (e, webContents) => {
  webContents.on('will-redirect', (e, url) => {
    if (/^file:/.test(url)) e.preventDefault()
  })
})

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, email us at security@electronjs.org.

Credit

Thanks to user @coolcoolnoworries for reporting this issue.

Release Notes

electron/electron

Update dependency electron to 18.3.7 [SECURITY] #3904

Update dependency electron to 18.3.7 [SECURITY] #3904

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balena-ci commented Dec 6, 2022

GitHub Vulnerability Alerts

CVE-2022-21718

Impact

Patches

Workarounds

CVE-2022-29247

Impact

Patches

Workarounds

For more information

CVE-2022-29257

Impact

Patches

Workarounds

For more information

CVE-2022-36077

Impact

Patches

Workarounds

For more information

Credit

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v18.3.7: electron v18.3.7

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v18.3.6: electron v18.3.6

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v18.3.5: electron v18.3.5

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v18.3.4: electron v18.3.4

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v18.3.3: electron v18.3.3

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v18.3.2: electron v18.3.2

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v18.3.1: electron v18.3.1

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v18.3.0: electron v18.3.0

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v18.2.4: electron v18.2.4

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v18.2.3: electron v18.2.3

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v18.2.2: electron v18.2.2

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v18.2.0: electron v18.2.0

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v18.1.0: electron v18.1.0

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v18.0.4: electron v18.0.4

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`v18.3.7`: electron v18.3.7

`v18.3.6`: electron v18.3.6

`v18.3.5`: electron v18.3.5

`v18.3.4`: electron v18.3.4

`v18.3.3`: electron v18.3.3

`v18.3.2`: electron v18.3.2

`v18.3.1`: electron v18.3.1

`v18.3.0`: electron v18.3.0

`v18.2.4`: electron v18.2.4

`v18.2.3`: electron v18.2.3

`v18.2.2`: electron v18.2.2

`v18.2.0`: electron v18.2.0

`v18.1.0`: electron v18.1.0

`v18.0.4`: electron v18.0.4

`v18.0.3`: electron v18.0.3

`v18.0.2`: electron v18.0.2

`v18.0.1`: electron v18.0.1

`v18.0.0`: electron v18.0.0

ab77 commented Dec 7, 2022 •

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