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CVE-2023-44402: electron

CVSS: 7.0v3.1HighModified
AliasesGHSA-7m48-wc93-9g85
Published 01-12-2023Last modified 02-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-44402 is a high (CVSS 7.0) vulnerability in electron. EPSS estimates a 0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
28/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.0/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.21%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 01-12-2023
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 02-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.21%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

10%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.21% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.21%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Electron1 product
  • electron< 22.3.24 | ≥ 23.0.0-alpha.1, ≤ 23.3.13 | ≥ 24.0.0-alpha.1, < 24.8.3 | ≥ 25.0.0-alpha.1, < 25.8.1 | ≥ 26.0.0-alpha.1, < 26.2.1 | ≥ 27.0.0-alpha.1, < 27.0.0-alpha.7
Electronjs1 product
  • electronEOL≤ 22.3.24 | ≥ 23.0.0, ≤ 23.3.14 | ≥ 24.0.0, ≤ 24.8.3 | ≥ 25.0.0, ≤ 25.8.1 | ≥ 26.0.0, ≤ 26.2.1 | 27.0.0:alpha1 | 27.0.0:alpha2 | 27.0.0:alpha3 | 27.0.0:alpha4 | 27.0.0:alpha5 | 27.0.0:alpha6
Npm1 product
  • electron< 22.3.24 | ≥ 24.0.0-alpha.1, < 24.8.3 | ≥ 25.0.0-alpha.1, < 25.8.1 | ≥ 26.0.0-alpha.1, < 26.2.1 | ≥ 27.0.0-alpha.1, < 27.0.0-alpha.7 | ≥ 23.0.0-alpha.1, ≤ 23.3.13

3 vendors · 3 products

References

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