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HistorySep 06, 2023 - 8:13 p.m.

CVE-2023-29198 Context isolation bypass via nested unserializable return value in Electron

2023-09-0620:13:56
CWE-754
GitHub_M
www.cve.org
6
electron
framework
javascript
context isolation
context bridge
cross-platform
desktop applications
security issue
api
main world context
renderer
exploitable
contextbridge
serialized object
canvas rendering context
exception
fix
update

CVSS3

6

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

AI Score

8.5

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

38.7%

Electron is a framework which lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Electron apps using contextIsolation and contextBridge are affected. This is a context isolation bypass, meaning that code running in the main world context in the renderer can reach into the isolated Electron context and perform privileged actions. This issue is only exploitable if an API exposed to the main world via contextBridge can return an object or array that contains a javascript object which cannot be serialized, for instance, a canvas rendering context. This would normally result in an exception being thrown Error: object could not be cloned. The app side workaround is to ensure that such a case is not possible. Ensure all values returned from a function exposed over the context bridge are supported. This issue has been fixed in versions 25.0.0-alpha.2, 24.0.1, 23.2.3, and 22.3.6.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "vendor": "electron",
    "product": "electron",
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "< 22.3.6",
        "status": "affected"
      },
      {
        "version": ">= 23.0.0, < 23.2.3",
        "status": "affected"
      },
      {
        "version": ">= 24.0.0, < 24.0.1",
        "status": "affected"
      },
      {
        "version": ">= 25.0.0-alpha.1, < 25.0.0-alpha.2",
        "status": "affected"
      }
    ]
  }
]

CVSS3

6

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

CHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

LOW

Availability Impact

LOW

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

AI Score

8.5

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

38.7%