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AutoUpdater module fails to validate certain nested components of the bundle

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jun 13, 2022 in electron/electron • Updated Jan 27, 2023

Package

npm electron (npm)

Affected versions

< 15.5.0
>= 16.0.0, < 16.2.0
>= 17.0.0, < 17.2.0
>= 18.0.0-beta.1, <= 18.0.0-beta.5

Patched versions

15.5.0
16.2.0
17.2.0
18.0.0-beta.6

Description

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 [email protected]

References

@MarshallOfSound MarshallOfSound published to electron/electron Jun 13, 2022
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jun 13, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 16, 2022
Reviewed Jun 16, 2022
Last updated Jan 27, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS score

0.095%
(42nd percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2022-29257

GHSA ID

GHSA-77xc-hjv8-ww97

Source code

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