GitHub Advisoryadvisory · npm
GHSA-gxh7-wv9q-fwfr Electron's Content-Secrity-Policy disabling eval not applied consistently in renderers with sandbox disabled
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2023-23623
- Ecosystem
- npm
- Packages
- electron
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-670
- Reviewed
- 2023-09-06
Affected packages
• npm electron: >= 22.0.0-beta.1, < 22.0.1 → fixed in 22.0.1
• npm electron: >= 23.0.0-alpha.1, < 23.0.0-alpha.2 → fixed in 23.0.0-alpha.2
Description
Impact
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 and contextIsolation disabled. i.e. `sandbox: false` and `contextIsolation: false` in the `webPreferences` object.
This resulted in incorrectly allowing usage of methods like `eval()` and `new Function`, which can result in an expanded attack surface.
Patches
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
• 23.0.0-alpha.2
We recommend all apps upgrade to the latest stable version of Electron, especially if they use `sandbox: false` or `contextIsolation: false`.
Workarounds
If upgrading isn't possible, this issue can be addressed without upgrading by enabling at least one of `sandbox: true` or `contextIsolation: true` on all renderers.
```js
const mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({
webPreferences: {
sandbox: true,
}
});
```
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, email us at [email protected].
Credit
Thanks to user @andreasdj for reporting this issue.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2023-23623 Electron is a framework which lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-670 Always-Incorrect Control Flow Implementation weakness
References
- https://github.com/electron/electron/security/advisories/GHSA-gxh7-wv9q-fwfr web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-23623 advisory
- https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/36667 web
- https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/36668 web
- https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/9e7fbc7021d8d716c43782249a552e55289c35db web
- https://github.com/electron/electron package
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v22.0.1 web