find all apps using Electron and their versions, on macOS systems

find-all-electron-versions.sh

# latest supported electron version as of october 2024
LATEST_SUPPORTED_VERSION=30
RED='\033[0;31m'
GREEN='\033[0;32m'
NC='\033[0m' # no color

mdfind "kind:app" 2>/dev/null | sort -u | while read app;
do
  filename="$app/Contents/Frameworks/Electron Framework.framework/Electron Framework"
  if [[ -f $filename ]]; then
    appname=$(echo $app | awk -F'/' '{print $NF}')
    electronVersion=$(strings "$filename" | grep "Chrome/" | grep -i Electron | grep -v '%s' | sort -u | cut -f 3 -d '/')
    major=$(echo $electronVersion | awk -F'.' '{print $1}')
    
    if [ "$major" -lt "$LATEST_SUPPORTED_VERSION" ]; then
      printf "App Name:          ${RED}${appname}${NC}\n"
    else
      printf "App Name:          ${GREEN}${appname}${NC}\n"
    fi

    echo "Electron Version:  ${electronVersion}"
    echo -n "File Name:         ${filename}"
    echo -e "\n"
  fi
done

Just changed my mac to English and now it works

Wanted to share a slightly updated version of the script above that we used internally to help make running the script more actionable for our employees. The main change is that it outputs and highlights only the apps that are on unsafe electron versions.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

RED='\033[0;31m'
NC='\033[0m' # No Color

# patched versions for CVE-2023-4863: 22.3.24, 24.8.3, 25.8.1, 26.2.1
mdfind "kind:app" 2>/dev/null | sort -u | while read app;
do
  filename="$app/Contents/Frameworks/Electron Framework.framework/Electron Framework"
  if [[ -f $filename ]]; then

    electronVersion=$(strings "$filename" | grep "Chrome/" | grep -i Electron | grep -v '%s' | sort -u | cut -f 3 -d '/')

    semver=( ${electronVersion//./ } )
    major="${semver[0]}"
    minor="${semver[1]}"
    patch="${semver[2]}"
    echo "${major}.${minor}.${patch}"

    if [[ ( $major -lt 22 ) || ( $major == 22 && $minor -lt 3 ) || ( $major == 22 && $minor == 3 && $patch -lt 26 )
    || ( $major == 23 )
    || ( $major == 24 && $minor -lt 8 ) || ( $major == 24 && $minor == 8 && $patch -lt 6 )
    || ( $major == 25 && $minor -lt 8 ) || ( $major == 25 && $minor == 8 && $patch -lt 4 )
    || ( $major == 26 && $minor -lt 2 ) || ( $major == 26 && $minor == 2 && $patch -lt 4 )
    || ( $major == 27 && $minor -lt 0 ) || ( $major == 27 && $minor == 0 && $patch -lt 0 )
     ]]; then
      printf "App Name:          ${RED}$(basename ${app})${NC}\n"
      echo "Electron Version:  $electronVersion"
      echo -n "File Name:         $filename "
      echo -e "\n"
    fi
  fi
done

went ahead and updated the script today:

• it's no longer specifically looking for CVE versions (since they're all unsupported version now anyways)
• it does look for unsupported versions, and marks them in red versus green
• it should now be both bash and zsh compatible