# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-44402"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2023-12-01T21:45:18.379Z"
updatedAt: "2024-08-02T20:07:33.168Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:58.683Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-44402"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-44402.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-44402"
title: "ASAR Integrity bypass via filetype confusion in electron"
summary: "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: [{"versions":[{"version":"\u003c 22.3.24","status":"affected"},{"version":"\u003e= 23.0.0-alpha.1, \u003c= 23.3.13","status":"affected"},{"version":"\u003e= 24.0.0-alpha.1, \u003c 24.8.3","status":"affected"},{"version":"\u003e= 25.0.0-alpha.1, \u003c 25.8.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"\u003e= 26.0.0-alpha.1, \u003c 26.2.1","status":"affected"},{"version":"\u003e= 27.0.0-alpha.1, \u003c 27.0.0-alpha.7","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"electron","product":"electron"}]

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