Riskcovery

CVE-2022-21718

Renderers can obtain access to random bluetooth device without permission in Electron

State
Published
Severity
3.4 Low
Published
Mar 22, 2022
Updated
Apr 23, 2025
Reserved
Nov 16, 2021

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Description

Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. A vulnerability in versions prior to `17.0.0-alpha.6`, `16.0.6`, `15.3.5`, `14.2.4`, and `13.6.6` allows renderers to obtain access to a bluetooth device via the web bluetooth API if the app has not configured a custom `select-bluetooth-device` event handler. This has been patched and Electron versions `17.0.0-alpha.6`, `16.0.6`, `15.3.5`, `14.2.4`, and `13.6.6` contain the fix. Code from the GitHub Security Advisory can be added to the app to work around the issue.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.13.4 LowCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-668 Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

Affected Products

ProductVersions
electronelectron
  • < 13.6.6Affected
  • >= 14.0.0-beta.1, < 14.2.4Affected
  • >= 15.0.0-beta.1, < 15.3.5Affected
  • >= 16.0.0-beta.1, < 16.0.6Affected
  • >= 17.0.0-alpha.1, <= 17.0.0-alpha.5Affected

References

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