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SCA: security update for electron (GHSA-7x97-j373-85x5)
medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 412334
Description
There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:- 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. (CVE-2023-39956)
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Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 412334
Version: Revision 1.9
Type: Local
Family: SCA Checks
Published: 1/23/2025
Updated: 7/2/2026
Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.9
Percentile: 52.58
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Medium
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.7
Temporal Score: 4.2
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:C/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-39956
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.6
Temporal Score: 5.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 9/6/2023
Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/6/2023
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2023-39956
cwe: CWE-94