CVE-2023-44402

Summary

Electron is an open source framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. This only impacts apps that have the embeddedAsarIntegrityValidation and onlyLoadAppFromAsar fuses enabled. Apps without these fuses enabled are not impacted. This issue is specific to macOS as these fuses are only currently supported on macOS. Specifically this issue can only be exploited if your app is launched from a filesystem the attacker has write access too. i.e. the ability to edit files inside the .app bundle on macOS which these fuses are supposed to protect against. There are no app side workarounds, you must update to a patched version of Electron.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
electronelectron< 22.3.24affected
electronelectron>= 23.0.0-alpha.1, <= 23.3.13affected
electronelectron>= 24.0.0-alpha.1, < 24.8.3affected
electronelectron>= 25.0.0-alpha.1, < 25.8.1affected
electronelectron>= 26.0.0-alpha.1, < 26.2.1affected
electronelectron>= 27.0.0-alpha.1, < 27.0.0-alpha.7affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-345: CWE-345: Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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