CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-44402

Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity

Published: Dec 01, 2023 | Modified: Dec 06, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Weakness

The product does not sufficiently verify the origin or authenticity of data, in a way that causes it to accept invalid data.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Electron Electronjs * 22.3.24 (including)
Electron Electronjs 23.0.0 (including) 23.3.14 (including)
Electron Electronjs 24.0.0 (including) 24.8.3 (including)
Electron Electronjs 25.0.0 (including) 25.8.1 (including)
Electron Electronjs 26.0.0 (including) 26.2.1 (including)
Electron Electronjs 27.0.0-alpha1 (including) 27.0.0-alpha1 (including)
Electron Electronjs 27.0.0-alpha2 (including) 27.0.0-alpha2 (including)
Electron Electronjs 27.0.0-alpha3 (including) 27.0.0-alpha3 (including)
Electron Electronjs 27.0.0-alpha4 (including) 27.0.0-alpha4 (including)
Electron Electronjs 27.0.0-alpha5 (including) 27.0.0-alpha5 (including)
Electron Electronjs 27.0.0-alpha6 (including) 27.0.0-alpha6 (including)

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