CVE-2023-39956

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Summary

CVECVE-2023-39956
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-09-06 21:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-09-12 12:32:00 UTC
DescriptionElectron 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-94

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Electronjs Electron All All All All
Application Electronjs Electron 26.0.0 alpha1 All All
Application Electronjs Electron 26.0.0 alpha2 All All
Application Electronjs Electron 26.0.0 alpha3 All All
Application Electronjs Electron 26.0.0 alpha4 All All
Application Electronjs Electron 26.0.0 alpha5 All All
Application Electronjs Electron 26.0.0 alpha6 All All
Application Electronjs Electron 26.0.0 alpha7 All All
Application Electronjs Electron 26.0.0 alpha8 All All
Application Electronjs Electron 26.0.0 beta1 All All
Application Electronjs Electron 26.0.0 beta10 All All
Application Electronjs Electron 26.0.0 beta11 All All
Application Electronjs Electron 26.0.0 beta12 All All
Application Electronjs Electron 26.0.0 beta2 All All
Application Electronjs Electron 26.0.0 beta3 All All
Application Electronjs Electron 26.0.0 beta4 All All
Application Electronjs Electron 26.0.0 beta5 All All
Application Electronjs Electron 26.0.0 beta6 All All
Application Electronjs Electron 26.0.0 beta7 All All
Application Electronjs Electron 26.0.0 beta8 All All
Application Electronjs Electron 26.0.0 beta9 All All

References

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Out-of-package code execution when launched with arbitrary cwd · Advisory · electron/electron · GitHub MISC github.com
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