Electron: DevTools JavaScript Injection via Unsanitized Dock State Parameter
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.7epss 0.3%
exploitation probability
0.3%top 75% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Prior to 39.8.7, 40.9.0, 41.2.0, and 42.0.0-beta.1, the mode option of webContents.openDevTools() was not sanitized before use by the DevTools frontend. If an attacker can influence this value, script under their control may run in the DevTools context, which in unsandboxed configurations has access to Node.js, including when untrusted input reaches the mode argument of openDevTools() or untrusted content calls openDevTools() on a webview it embeds. This issue is fixed in 39.8.7, 40.9.0, 41.2.0, and 42.0.0-beta.1.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Affected products
electron · electronReferences
https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/04614eed17986bddc43eb509ec870424ee6a47d1https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/2046ae87731d80a7b535512ae19acb529e10e33bhttps://github.com/electron/electron/commit/969741f9f847c5c583f6bbc63ca22549dbd954cehttps://github.com/electron/electron/commit/efc4d3c6b6f1c04f658ca0d9d2512dcfe78eb7bahttps://github.com/electron/electron/pull/50665https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/50666https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/50667https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/50668https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v39.8.7https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v40.9.0https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v41.2.0https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v42.0.0-beta.1