{"answers":{"affected":"4 open source packages ship an affected version, including electron. It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-23623 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade electron to a fixed version for your release line: 22.0.1 or 23.0.0-alpha.2.","what":"CVE-2023-23623 is a high-severity vulnerability in Electronjs Electron, published on 6 Sep 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2023-23623 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2023-23623 is a high-severity vulnerability in Electronjs Electron, published on 6 Sep 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-23623 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- electron (npm): affected from 22.0.0-beta.1; fixed in 22.0.1\n- electron (npm): affected from 22.0.0-beta.1; fixed in 22.0.1\n- electron (npm): affected from 23.0.0-alpha.1; fixed in 23.0.0-alpha.2\n- electron (npm): affected from 23.0.0-alpha.1; fixed in 23.0.0-alpha.2\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-23623/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-23623/index.md)","id":"CVE-2023-23623","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-23623/index.md","name":"CVE-2023-23623","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-gxh7-wv9q-fwfr"],"analysis":{"component_type":"desktop_application","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution","security_bypass"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":true,"product_category":"Electron framework","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Electron fails to enforce Content-Security-Policy restrictions on eval in unsandboxed renderers, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code if sandboxing is disabled.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"security_feature_bypass"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"GitHub_M","cpe":[{"product":"electron","vendor":"electronjs"}],"cvss":{"score":7.5,"severity":"high","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-670","name":"Always-Incorrect Control Flow Implementation"}],"description":"Electron is a framework which lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. A Content-Security-Policy that disables eval, specifically setting a `script-src` directive and _not_ providing `unsafe-eval` in that directive, is not respected in renderers that have sandbox disabled.  i.e. `sandbox: false` in the `webPreferences` object. This allows usage of methods like `eval()` and `new Function` unexpectedly which can result in an expanded attack surface. This issue only ever affected the 22 and 23 major versions of Electron and has been fixed in the latest versions of those release lines. Specifically, these versions contain the fixes: 22.0.1 and 23.0.0-alpha.2 We recommend all apps upgrade to the latest stable version of Electron. If upgrading isn't possible, this issue can be addressed without upgrading by enabling `sandbox: true` on all renderers.","ecosystems":["npm"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Content-Secrity-Policy disabling eval not applied consistently in renderers with sandbox disabled in Electron","id":"CVE-2023-23623","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"npm","product":"electronjs:electron","products":["electronjs:electron"],"type":"security_feature_bypass","year":"2023"},"n_packages":4,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Discourse's exclude_tags param could leak which topics had a specific hidden tag","id":"CVE-2023-23624"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["22.0.1"],"introduced":["22.0.0-beta.1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"electron","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-gxh7-wv9q-fwfr"},{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["22.0.1"],"introduced":["22.0.0-beta.1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"electron","purl":"pkg:npm/electron","source":"GHSA-gxh7-wv9q-fwfr"},{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["23.0.0-alpha.2"],"introduced":["23.0.0-alpha.1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"electron","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-gxh7-wv9q-fwfr"},{"ecosystem":"npm","fixed":["23.0.0-alpha.2"],"introduced":["23.0.0-alpha.1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"electron","purl":"pkg:npm/electron","source":"GHSA-gxh7-wv9q-fwfr"}],"prev":{"headline":"Discourse: Presence of read restricted topics may be leaked if tagged with a tag that is visible to all users","id":"CVE-2023-23622"},"products":["electron"],"published":"2023-09-06","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Chromium Remote Code Execution in electron","id":"CVE-2017-16151","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-06-07"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Electron protocol handler browser vulnerable to Command Injection","id":"CVE-2018-1000118","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-03-07"},{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"Electron: Context Isolation bypass via contextBridge VideoFrame transfer","id":"CVE-2026-34780","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-04-04"},{"cvss_score":8.3,"headline":"Electron: \u003cwebview\u003e can enable Node.js integration in Web Workers despite embedder restrictions","id":"CVE-2026-102676","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-09-29"},{"cvss_score":8.2,"headline":"Electron drops inherited HTML sandbox restrictions for popups opened through OpenURLFromTab","id":"CVE-2026-102673","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-09-29"},{"cvss_score":8.2,"headline":"Electron: Windows opened from a sandboxed top-level document do not inherit its sandbox restrictions","id":"CVE-2026-102674","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-09-29"},{"cvss_score":8.1,"headline":"Electron: Use-after-free in offscreen child window paint callback","id":"CVE-2026-34774","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-04-03"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"GitHub Advisory Database","prefix":"GHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"yes","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-09-26","vendors":["electron"]},"summary":"Electron fails to enforce Content-Security-Policy restrictions on eval in unsandboxed renderers, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code if sandboxing is disabled.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-23623/"}