{"answers":{"affected":"8 open source packages ship an affected version, including electron. It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-29198 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade electron to a fixed version for your release line: 22.3.6, 23.2.3, 24.0.1 or 25.0.0-alpha.2.","what":"CVE-2023-29198 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Electronjs Electron, published on 6 Sep 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-29198 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-29198 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Electronjs Electron, published on 6 Sep 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-29198 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- electron (npm): affected all versions; fixed in 22.3.6\n- electron (npm): affected all versions; fixed in 22.3.6\n- electron (npm): affected from 23.0.0-alpha.1; fixed in 23.2.3\n- electron (npm): affected from 23.0.0-alpha.1; fixed in 23.2.3\n- electron (npm): affected from 24.0.0-alpha.1; fixed in 24.0.1\n- electron (npm): affected from 24.0.0-alpha.1; fixed in 24.0.1\n- electron (npm): affected from 25.0.0-alpha.1; fixed in 25.0.0-alpha.2\n- electron (npm): affected from 25.0.0-alpha.1; fixed in 25.0.0-alpha.2\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-2023-29198/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-29198/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-29198","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-29198/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-29198","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-p7v2-p9m8-qqg7"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["privilege_escalation","code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Electron framework","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Attackers can bypass context isolation in Electron apps to perform privileged actions if exposed APIs return unserializable objects.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"security_feature_bypass"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"GitHub_M","cpe":[{"product":"electron","vendor":"electronjs"}],"cvss":{"score":6,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-754","name":"Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions"}],"description":"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`.","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":"Context isolation bypass via nested unserializable return value in Electron","id":"CVE-2023-29198","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"npm","product":"electronjs:electron","products":["electronjs:electron"],"type":"security_feature_bypass","year":"2023"},"n_packages":8,"n_references":2,"next":{"headline":"vm2 Sandbox escape vulnerability","id":"CVE-2023-29199"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["22.3.6"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"electron","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-p7v2-p9m8-qqg7"},{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["22.3.6"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"electron","purl":"pkg:npm/electron","source":"GHSA-p7v2-p9m8-qqg7"},{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["23.2.3"],"introduced":["23.0.0-alpha.1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"electron","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-p7v2-p9m8-qqg7"},{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["23.2.3"],"introduced":["23.0.0-alpha.1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"electron","purl":"pkg:npm/electron","source":"GHSA-p7v2-p9m8-qqg7"},{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["24.0.1"],"introduced":["24.0.0-alpha.1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"electron","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-p7v2-p9m8-qqg7"},{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["24.0.1"],"introduced":["24.0.0-alpha.1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"electron","purl":"pkg:npm/electron","source":"GHSA-p7v2-p9m8-qqg7"},{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["25.0.0-alpha.2"],"introduced":["25.0.0-alpha.1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"electron","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-p7v2-p9m8-qqg7"},{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["25.0.0-alpha.2"],"introduced":["25.0.0-alpha.1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"electron","purl":"pkg:npm/electron","source":"GHSA-p7v2-p9m8-qqg7"}],"prev":{"headline":"Improper header name validation in guzzlehttp/psr7","id":"CVE-2023-29197"},"products":["electron"],"published":"2023-09-06","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":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-09-26","vendors":["electron"]},"summary":"Attackers can bypass context isolation in Electron apps to perform privileged actions if exposed APIs return unserializable objects.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-29198/"}