CVE-2023-44402: Electronjs Electron

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Electronjs Electron: up to and including 22.3.24; from 23.0.0, up to and including 23.3.14; from 24.0.0, up to and including 24.8.3; from 25.0.0, up to and including 25.8.1; from 26.0.0, up to and including 26.2.1; version 27.0.0 only

Published 2023-12-01. Last modified 2026-06-17.