CVE-2023-39956
CVE-2023-39956 · Electron: Out-of-package code execution when launched with arbitrary cwd
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Electron is a framework which lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Electron apps that are launched as command line executables are impacted. Specifically this issue can only be exploited if the following conditions are met: 1. The app is launched with an attacker-controlled working directory and 2. The attacker has the ability to write files to that working directory. This makes the risk quite low, in fact normally issues of this kind are considered outside of our threat model as similar to Chromium we exclude Physically Local Attacks but given the ability for this issue to bypass certain protections like ASAR Integrity it is being treated with higher importance. This issue has been fixed in versions:`26.0.0-beta.13`, `25.4.1`, `24.7.1`, `23.3.13`, and `22.3.19`. There are no app side workarounds, users must update to a patched version of Electron.
CVSS 6.1 · Medium · EPSS 0.5% · Fix available
- Published
- Updated
Stack: node
Affected products and versions
electron
- Versions
- < 22.3.19: Affected
- >= 23.0.0, < 23.3.13: Affected
- >= 24.0.0, < 24.7.1: Affected
- >= 25.0.0, < 25.4.1: Affected
- >= 26.0.0-beta.1, < 26.0.0-beta.13: Affected
No fix published
electron npm
- Affected ranges
- SEMVER: < 22.3.19
Update to 22.3.19
electron npm
- Affected ranges
- SEMVER: ≥ 23.0.0-alpha.1, < 23.3.13
Update to 23.3.13
electron npm
- Affected ranges
- SEMVER: ≥ 24.0.0-alpha.1, < 24.7.1
Update to 24.7.1
electron npm
- Affected ranges
- SEMVER: ≥ 25.0.0-alpha.1, < 25.5.0
Update to 25.5.0
electron npm
- Affected ranges
- SEMVER: ≥ 26.0.0-alpha.1, < 26.0.0-beta.13
Update to 26.0.0-beta.13