{"answers":{"affected":"8 open source packages ship an affected version, including electron. It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-29257 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade electron to a fixed version for your release line: 15.5.0, 16.2.0, 17.2.0 or 18.0.0-beta.6.","what":"CVE-2022-29257 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Electronjs Electron, published on 13 Jun 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2022-29257 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2022-29257 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Electronjs Electron, published on 13 Jun 2022. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-29257 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- electron (npm): affected all versions; fixed in 15.5.0\n- electron (npm): affected all versions; fixed in 15.5.0\n- electron (npm): affected from 16.0.0; fixed in 16.2.0\n- electron (npm): affected from 16.0.0; fixed in 16.2.0\n- electron (npm): affected from 17.0.0; fixed in 17.2.0\n- electron (npm): affected from 17.0.0; fixed in 17.2.0\n- electron (npm): affected from 18.0.0-beta.1; fixed in 18.0.0-beta.6\n- electron (npm): affected from 18.0.0-beta.1; fixed in 18.0.0-beta.6\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-29257/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-29257/index.md)","id":"CVE-2022-29257","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-29257/index.md","name":"CVE-2022-29257","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-77xc-hjv8-ww97"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Electron framework","requires_auth":"high_privilege","summary":"Attackers controlling update servers can serve maliciously crafted packages that bypass code signing, leading to arbitrary code execution in Electron applications.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"code_injection"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"GitHub_M","cpe":[{"product":"electron","vendor":"electronjs"}],"cvss":{"score":6.6,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-20","name":"Improper Input Validation"}],"description":"Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript (JS), HTML, and CSS. A vulnerability in versions prior to 18.0.0-beta.6, 17.2.0, 16.2.6, and 15.5.5 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. This kind of attack would require significant privileges in a potential victim's own auto updating infrastructure and the ease of that attack entirely depends on the potential victim's infrastructure security. Electron versions 18.0.0-beta.6, 17.2.0, 16.2.6, and 15.5.5 contain a fix for this issue. There are no known workarounds.","ecosystems":["npm"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Electron's AutoUpdater module fails to validate certain nested components of the bundle","id":"CVE-2022-29257","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"npm","product":"electronjs:electron","products":["electronjs:electron"],"type":"code_injection","year":"2022"},"n_packages":8,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Cross-site Scripting in Filter Stream Converter Application in XWiki Platform","id":"CVE-2022-29258"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["15.5.0"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"electron","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-77xc-hjv8-ww97"},{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["15.5.0"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"electron","purl":"pkg:npm/electron","source":"GHSA-77xc-hjv8-ww97"},{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["16.2.0"],"introduced":["16.0.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"electron","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-77xc-hjv8-ww97"},{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["16.2.0"],"introduced":["16.0.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"electron","purl":"pkg:npm/electron","source":"GHSA-77xc-hjv8-ww97"},{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["17.2.0"],"introduced":["17.0.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"electron","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-77xc-hjv8-ww97"},{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["17.2.0"],"introduced":["17.0.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"electron","purl":"pkg:npm/electron","source":"GHSA-77xc-hjv8-ww97"},{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["18.0.0-beta.6"],"introduced":["18.0.0-beta.1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"electron","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-77xc-hjv8-ww97"},{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["18.0.0-beta.6"],"introduced":["18.0.0-beta.1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"electron","purl":"pkg:npm/electron","source":"GHSA-77xc-hjv8-ww97"}],"prev":{"headline":"Possible vulnerability at 'npm install' time in sharp if an attacker has control over build environment","id":"CVE-2022-29256"},"products":["electron"],"published":"2022-06-13","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Chromium Remote Code Execution in electron","id":"CVE-2017-16151","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-06-07"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Electron protocol handler browser vulnerable to Command Injection","id":"CVE-2018-1000118","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-03-07"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Electron: Context Isolation bypass via contextBridge VideoFrame transfer","id":"CVE-2026-34780","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-04-04"},{"cvss_score":8.3,"headline":"Electron: \u003cwebview\u003e can enable Node.js integration in Web Workers despite embedder restrictions","id":"CVE-2026-102676","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-09-29"},{"cvss_score":8.2,"headline":"Electron drops inherited HTML sandbox restrictions for popups opened through OpenURLFromTab","id":"CVE-2026-102673","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-09-29"},{"cvss_score":8.2,"headline":"Electron: Windows opened from a sandboxed top-level document do not inherit its sandbox restrictions","id":"CVE-2026-102674","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-09-29"},{"cvss_score":8.1,"headline":"Electron: Use-after-free in offscreen child window paint callback","id":"CVE-2026-34774","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-04-03"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"GitHub Advisory Database","prefix":"GHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-04-23","vendors":["electron"]},"summary":"Attackers controlling update servers can serve maliciously crafted packages that bypass code signing, leading to arbitrary code execution in Electron applications.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-29257/"}