CVE-2023-39956 (Medium) detected in electron-16.0.8.tgz

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CVE-2023-39956 - Medium Severity Vulnerability

Vulnerable Library - electron-16.0.8.tgz

Build cross platform desktop apps with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS

Library home page: https://registry.npmjs.org/electron/-/electron-16.0.8.tgz

Dependency Hierarchy:

• ❌ electron-16.0.8.tgz (Vulnerable Library)

Found in HEAD commit: 16df54b5db88f4c8b21295a7ded5e65ec8446eaa

Found in base branch: main

Vulnerability Details

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.

Publish Date: 2023-09-06

URL: CVE-2023-39956

CVSS 3 Score Details (6.1)

Base Score Metrics:

• Exploitability Metrics:
  • Attack Vector: Local
  • Attack Complexity: Low
  • Privileges Required: Low
  • User Interaction: Required
  • Scope: Unchanged
• Impact Metrics:
  • Confidentiality Impact: Low
  • Integrity Impact: High
  • Availability Impact: Low

For more information on CVSS3 Scores, click here.

Suggested Fix

Type: Upgrade version

Origin: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-39956

Release Date: 2023-09-06

Fix Resolution: 22.3.21

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