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CVE-2022-21718: Renderers can obtain access to random bluetooth device without permission in Electron

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 20/100)

  • The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
  • Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.94% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 61.2% of all records.
  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
  • Fixed version: electron (npm) 14.2.4, 15.3.5, 16.0.6.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to electron (npm) 14.2.4, 15.3.5, 16.0.6 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

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.

MediumCVSS 5.0 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available
Published
Mar 22, 2022
Updated
Jun 17, 2026
EPSS
0.9% · 61th percentile

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Action score

20

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS
20 / 40 · 5.0 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 0.9%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD
5.0
CNA · GitHub_M
3.4
1.6 point gap

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Affected systems

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VendorProduct
electronjselectron

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • electronjs electronbefore 13.6.6
  • electronjs electron14.0.0 and later · before 14.2.4
  • electronjs electron15.0.0 and later · before 15.3.5
  • electronjs electron16.0.0 and later · before 16.0.6
  • electronjs electron17.0.0

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (GitHub_M). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

  • electron electron

    • < 13.6.6, >= 14.0.0-beta.1, < 14.2.4, >= 15.0.0-beta.1, < 15.3.5, >= 16.0.0-beta.1, < 16.0.6, >= 17.0.0-alpha.1, <= 17.0.0-alpha.5affected

Package-level exposure

OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.

EcosystemPackageAffected rangeFix
npmelectronfrom 14.0.0-beta.1 · before 14.2.414.2.4
npmelectronfrom 15.0.0-beta.1 · before 15.3.515.3.5
npmelectronfrom 16.0.0-beta.1 · before 16.0.616.0.6
npmelectronfrom 17.0.0-alpha.1 · before 17.0.0-alpha.617.0.0-alpha.6
npmelectronbefore 13.6.613.6.6

Same product

electronjs: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2017-16151Based on details posted by the ElectronJS team; A remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in Google Chromium that affects al
    40Plan
  • CVE-2026-102676Electron: <webview> can enable Node.js integration in Web Workers despite embedder restrictions
    39Monitor
  • CVE-2026-34775Electron: nodeIntegrationInWorker not correctly scoped in shared renderer processes
    39Monitor

Published before and after this one in the same product

  • ← EarlierCVE-2020-26272Jan 28, 2021 · Electron vulnerable to ID collision when routing IPC messages to renderers containing OOPIFs
    27Monitor
  • ← EarlierCVE-2021-39184Oct 12, 2021 · Sandboxed renderers can obtain thumbnails of arbitrary files through the nativeImage API
    34Monitor
  • Later →CVE-2022-29247Jun 13, 2022 · Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere in Electron
    39Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / packageFixed versionSource
npm:electron13.6.6Package registry (OSV)
npm:electron14.2.4Package registry (OSV)
npm:electron15.3.5Package registry (OSV)
npm:electron16.0.6Package registry (OSV)
npm:electron17.0.0-alpha.6Package registry (OSV)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.

Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

Credits

All researchers

Finders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.

No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
  • A low-privileged account is enough.
  • No user action is required.
  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
low · data can be read
Integrity
none
Availability
none

Impact can extend beyond the vulnerable component (scope changes).

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality impact
Low
Integrity impact
None
Availability impact
None

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-668 · Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

nvd-primary

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.

Change log

  1. Fix✗ → ✓

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References

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