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High · 7.5 CVE-2023-23623 EUVD-2023-2513GHSA-gxh7-wv9q-fwfr

Content-Secrity-Policy disabling eval not applied consistently in renderers with sandbox disabled in Electron

Published Sep 6, 2023 · Updated Sep 26, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Electron is a framework which lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. A Content-Security-Policy that disables eval, specifically setting a `script-src` directive and _not_ providing `unsafe-eval` in that directive, is not respected in renderers that have sandbox disabled. i.e. `sandbox: false` in the `webPreferences` object. This allows usage of methods like `eval()` and `new Function` unexpectedly which can result in an expanded attack surface. This issue only ever affected the 22 and 23 major versions of Electron and has been fixed in the latest versions of those release lines. Specifically, these versions contain the fixes: 22.0.1 and 23.0.0-alpha.2 We recommend all apps upgrade to the latest stable version of Electron. If upgrading isn't possible, this issue can be addressed without upgrading by enabling `sandbox: true` on all renderers.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
electron electron >= 22.0.0-beta.1, < 22.0.1, >= 23.0.0-alpha.1, < 23.0.0-alpha.2 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed nodejs-electron 22.3.6-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2024:12869-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm electron >= 22.0.0-beta.1, < 22.0.1 22.0.1 GHSA-gxh7-wv9q-fwfr
npm electron >= 23.0.0-alpha.1, < 23.0.0-alpha.2 23.0.0-alpha.2 GHSA-gxh7-wv9q-fwfr

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