GHSA-77xc-hjv8-ww97

Source

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-77xc-hjv8-ww97

Import Source

https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/06/GHSA-77xc-hjv8-ww97/GHSA-77xc-hjv8-ww97.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-77xc-hjv8-ww97

Aliases

CVE-2022-29257

Published

2022-06-16T23:18:47Z

Modified

2023-11-08T04:09:12Z

Severity

6.6 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

AutoUpdater module fails to validate certain nested components of the bundle

Details

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

Database specific

{
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-20"
    ],
    "github_reviewed":  true,
    "github_reviewed_at":  "2022-06-16T23:18:47Z",
    "nvd_published_at":  "2022-06-13T22:15:00Z",
    "severity":  "MODERATE"
}

References

Affected packages

npm / electron

Package

Name: electron; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:npm/electron

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

15.5.0

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/06/GHSA-77xc-hjv8-ww97/GHSA-77xc-hjv8-ww97.json"

npm / electron

Package

Name: electron; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:npm/electron

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

16.0.0

Fixed

16.2.0

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/06/GHSA-77xc-hjv8-ww97/GHSA-77xc-hjv8-ww97.json"

npm / electron

Package

Name: electron; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:npm/electron

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

17.0.0

Fixed

17.2.0

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/06/GHSA-77xc-hjv8-ww97/GHSA-77xc-hjv8-ww97.json"

npm / electron

Package

Name: electron; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:npm/electron

Affected ranges

Type: SEMVER
Events: Introduced

18.0.0-beta.1

Fixed

18.0.0-beta.6

Database specific

last_known_affected_version_range

"<= 18.0.0-beta.5"

source

"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2022/06/GHSA-77xc-hjv8-ww97/GHSA-77xc-hjv8-ww97.json"