CVE-2023-39956

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Published 2023-09-06 · Modified 2023-11-08

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CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

Electron vulnerable to out-of-package code execution when launched with arbitrary cwd

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
npm	electron	`<22.3.19`	`22.3.19`
npm	electron	`>=23.0.0-alpha.1,<23.3.13`	`23.3.13`
npm	electron	`>=24.0.0-alpha.1,<24.7.1`	`24.7.1`
npm	electron	`>=25.0.0-alpha.1,<25.5.0`	`25.5.0`
npm	electron	`>=26.0.0-alpha.1,<26.0.0-beta.13`	`26.0.0-beta.13`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.