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SCA: security update for electron (GHSA-3p22-ghq8-v749)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 409600

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. A
 vulnerability in versions prior to `17.0.0-alpha.6`, `16.0.6`, `15.3.5`, `14.2.4`, and `13.6.6` allows
 renderers to obtain access to a bluetooth device via the web bluetooth API if the app has not configured a
 custom `select-bluetooth-device` event handler. This has been patched and Electron versions
 `17.0.0-alpha.6`, `16.0.6`, `15.3.5`, `14.2.4`, and `13.6.6` contain the fix. Code from the GitHub
 Security Advisory can be added to the app to work around the issue. (CVE-2022-21718)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3p22-ghq8-v749

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 409600

Version: Revision 1.8

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-21718

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/22/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/22/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-21718