CVE-2023-39956

MEDIUM EPSS 42.6%
Published Sep 6, 20232y ago · Modified Jun 17, 20262w ago
6.6 CVSS 3.1
Medium
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Published Sep 6, 2023 2y ago
Last Modified Jun 17, 2026 2w ago

Description

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 Details

Base Score
6.6
Exploitability
1.8
Impact
4.7
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
Attack Vector Local
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Low
Integrity High
Availability Low

Threat Intelligence

EPSS Exploit Probability
42.6% percentile
Exploit & Patch Status
No Known Exploit
No Patch Available

Weaknesses 1

CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code (Code Injection) Injection

Affected Products 24

VendorProductVersionRange
electronjselectron* <22.3.9
electronjselectron*≥23.0.0  –  <23.3.13
electronjselectron*≥24.0.0  –  <24.7.1
electronjselectron*≥25.0.0  –  <25.5.0
electronjselectron26.0.0any
electronjselectron26.0.0any
electronjselectron26.0.0any
electronjselectron26.0.0any
electronjselectron26.0.0any
electronjselectron26.0.0any
electronjselectron26.0.0any
electronjselectron26.0.0any
electronjselectron26.0.0any
electronjselectron26.0.0any
electronjselectron26.0.0any
electronjselectron26.0.0any
electronjselectron26.0.0any
electronjselectron26.0.0any
electronjselectron26.0.0any
electronjselectron26.0.0any
electronjselectron26.0.0any
electronjselectron26.0.0any
electronjselectron26.0.0any
electronjselectron26.0.0any

References 1

  • github.com https://github.com/electron/electron/security/advisories/GHSA-7x97-j373-85x5
    Vendor Advisory

Remediation

No remediation data recorded yet

Check vendor advisories and the NVD entry for patch availability.