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.
References
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https://github.com/electron/electron/security/advisories/GHSA-7x97-j373-85x5 | Vendor Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published: 2023-09-06T20:09:33.185Z
Updated: 2023-09-06T20:09:33.185Z
Reserved: 2023-08-07T16:27:27.075Z
Link: CVE-2023-39956
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2023-09-06T21:15:13.217
Modified: 2023-09-12T12:32:48.677
Link: CVE-2023-39956
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