CVE-2023-39956
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-09-06 20:09
Modified
2024-09-26 15:17
Severity ?
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
Summary
Electron: Out-of-package code execution when launched with arbitrary cwd
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/electron/electron/security/advisories/GHSA-7x97-j373-85x5Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
electronelectron
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