Update dependency electron to v28 [SECURITY] #268

renovate · 2025-08-14T10:50:57Z

This PR contains the following updates:

Package	Change	Age	Confidence
electron	`9.0.5` -> `28.3.2`

GitHub Vulnerability Alerts

CVE-2020-15174

Impact

The will-navigate event that apps use to prevent navigations to unexpected destinations as per our security recommendations can be bypassed when a sub-frame performs a top-frame navigation across sites.

Patches

11.0.0-beta.1
10.0.1
9.3.0
8.5.1

Workarounds

Sandbox all your iframes using the sandbox attribute. This will prevent them creating top-frame navigations and is good practice anyway.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

Email us at security@electronjs.org

CVE-2020-15215

Impact

Apps using both contextIsolation and sandbox: true are affected.
Apps using both contextIsolation and nativeWindowOpen: true 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.

Workarounds

There are no app-side workarounds, you must update your Electron version to be protected.

Fixed Versions

11.0.0-beta.6
10.1.2
9.3.1
8.5.2

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

Email us at security@electronjs.org

CVE-2020-26272

Impact

IPC messages sent from the main process to a subframe in the renderer process, through webContents.sendToFrame, event.reply or when using the remote module, can in some cases be delivered to the wrong frame.

If your app does ANY of the following, then it is impacted by this issue:

Uses remote
Calls webContents.sendToFrame
Calls event.reply in an IPC message handler

Patches

This has been fixed in the following versions:

9.4.0
10.2.0
11.1.0
12.0.0-beta.9

Workarounds

There are no workarounds for this issue.

For more information

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

CVE-2021-39184

Impact

This vulnerability allows a sandboxed renderer to request a "thumbnail" image of an arbitrary file on the user's system. The thumbnail can potentially include significant parts of the original file, including textual data in many cases.

All current stable versions of Electron are affected.

Patches

This was fixed with #30728, and the following Electron versions contain the fix:

15.0.0-alpha.10
14.0.0
13.3.0
12.1.0
11.5.0

Workarounds

If your app enables contextIsolation, this vulnerability is significantly more difficult for an attacker to exploit.

Further, if your app does not depend on the createThumbnailFromPath API, then you can simply disable the functionality. In the main process, before the 'ready' event:

delete require('electron').nativeImage.createThumbnailFromPath

For more information

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

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.

CVE-2024-46993

Impact

The nativeImage.createFromPath() and nativeImage.createFromBuffer() functions call a function downstream that is vulnerable to a heap buffer overflow. An Electron program that uses either of the affected functions is vulnerable to a buffer overflow if an attacker is in control of the image's height, width, and contents.

Workaround

There are no app-side workarounds for this issue. You must update your Electron version to be protected.

Patches

v28.3.2
v29.3.3
v30.0.3

For More Information

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

CVE-2023-39956

Impact

Apps that are launched as command line executables are impacted. E.g. if your app exposes itself in the path as myapp --help

Specifically this issue can only be exploited if the following conditions are met:

Your app is launched with an attacker-controlled working directory
The attacker has the ability to write files to that working directory

This makes the risk quite low, in fact normally issues of this kind are considered outside of our threat model as similar to Chromium we exclude Physically Local Attacks but given the ability for this issue to bypass certain protections like ASAR Integrity it is being treated with higher importance. Please bear this in mind when reporting similar issues in the future.

Workarounds

There are no app side workarounds, you must update to a patched version of Electron.

Fixed Versions

26.0.0-beta.13
25.5.0
24.7.1
23.3.13
22.3.19

For more information

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

CVE-2023-5217

Heap buffer overflow in vp8 encoding in libvpx in Google Chrome prior to 117.0.5938.132 and libvpx 1.13.1 allowed a remote attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption via a crafted HTML page.

CVE-2023-44402

Impact

This only impacts apps that have the embeddedAsarIntegrityValidation and onlyLoadAppFromAsar fuses enabled. Apps without these fuses enabled are not impacted. This issue is specific to macOS as these fuses are only currently supported on macOS.

Specifically this issue can only be exploited if your app is launched from a filesystem the attacker has write access too. i.e. the ability to edit files inside the resources folder in your app installation on Windows which these fuses are supposed to protect against.

Workarounds

There are no app side workarounds, you must update to a patched version of Electron.

Fixed Versions

27.0.0-alpha.7
26.2.1
25.8.1
24.8.3
22.3.24

For more information

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

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v28.3.2: electron v28.3.2

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v28.3.1: electron v28.3.1

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v28.3.0: electron v28.3.0

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v28.2.10: electron v28.2.10

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v28.2.9: electron v28.2.9

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`v28.3.2`: electron v28.3.2

`v28.3.1`: electron v28.3.1

`v28.3.0`: electron v28.3.0

`v28.2.10`: electron v28.2.10

`v28.2.9`: electron v28.2.9

`v28.2.8`: electron v28.2.8

`v28.2.7`: electron v28.2.7

`v28.2.6`: electron v28.2.6

`v28.2.5`: electron v28.2.5

`v28.2.4`: electron v28.2.4

`v28.2.3`: electron v28.2.3

`v28.2.2`: electron v28.2.2

`v28.2.1`: electron v28.2.1

`v28.2.0`: electron v28.2.0

`v28.1.4`: electron v28.1.4

`v28.1.3`: electron v28.1.3

`v28.1.2`: electron v28.1.2

`v28.1.1`: electron v28.1.1

`v28.1.0`: electron v28.1.0

`v28.0.0`: electron v28.0.0