CVE-2022-21718: Electronjs Electron

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Electronjs Electron: before 13.6.6 (fixed in 13.6.6); from 14.0.0, before 14.2.4 (fixed in 14.2.4); from 15.0.0, before 15.3.5 (fixed in 15.3.5); from 16.0.0, before 16.0.6 (fixed in 16.0.6); version 17.0.0 only

Published 2022-03-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.