Electron: Use-after-free in PowerMonitor on Windows and macOS

Impact Apps that use the powerMonitor module may be vulnerable to a use-after-free. After the native PowerMonitor object is garbage-collected, the associated OS-level resources a message window on Windows, a shutdown handler on macOS retain dangling references. A subsequent session-change event...

EUVD-2026-18937

Electron: Renderer command-line switch injection via undocumented commandLineSwitches webPreference...

Hidden Functionality

Overview org.webjars.npm:electron is a framework which lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Hidden Functionality via the commandLineSwitches webPreference. An attacker can inject arbitrary command-li...

GHSA-9WFR-W7MM-PC7F Electron: Renderer command-line switch injection via undocumented commandLineSwitches webPreference

Impact An undocumented commandLineSwitches webPreference allowed arbitrary switches to be appended to the renderer process command line. Apps that construct webPreferences by spreading untrusted configuration objects may inadvertently allow an attacker to inject switches that disable renderer...

Hidden Functionality

Overview electron is a framework which lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Hidden Functionality via the commandLineSwitches webPreference. An attacker can inject arbitrary command-line switches into...

Unquoted Search Path or Element

Overview org.webjars.npm:electron is a framework which lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Unquoted Search Path or Element in the app.setLoginItemSettings function on Windows when the executable pat...

Electron: Unquoted executable path in app.setLoginItemSettings on Windows

Impact On Windows, app.setLoginItemSettingsopenAtLogin: true wrote the executable path to the Run registry key without quoting. If the app is installed to a path containing spaces, an attacker with write access to an ancestor directory may be able to cause a different executable to run at login...

Unquoted Search Path or Element

Overview electron is a framework which lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Unquoted Search Path or Element in the app.setLoginItemSettings function on Windows when the executable path is written to...

GHSA-JFQX-FXH3-C62J Electron: Unquoted executable path in app.setLoginItemSettings on Windows

Impact On Windows, app.setLoginItemSettingsopenAtLogin: true wrote the executable path to the Run registry key without quoting. If the app is installed to a path containing spaces, an attacker with write access to an ancestor directory may be able to cause a different executable to run at login...

HTTP Response Splitting

Overview electron is a framework which lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTP Response Splitting via the protocol.handle, protocol.registerSchemesAsPrivileged, or webRequest.onHeadersReceived...

HTTP Response Splitting

Overview org.webjars.npm:electron is a framework which lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTP Response Splitting via the protocol.handle, protocol.registerSchemesAsPrivileged, or...

EUVD-2026-18933

Electron: HTTP Response Header Injection in custom protocol handlers and webRequest...

Missing Authorization

Overview electron is a framework which lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Authorization in the select-usb-device event callback, which did not validate the chosen device ID against the...

Electron: USB device selection not validated against filtered device list

Impact The select-usb-device event callback did not validate the chosen device ID against the filtered list that was presented to the handler. An app whose handler could be influenced to select a device ID outside the filtered set would grant access to a device that did not match the renderer's...

GHSA-9899-M83M-QHPJ Electron: USB device selection not validated against filtered device list

Impact The select-usb-device event callback did not validate the chosen device ID against the filtered list that was presented to the handler. An app whose handler could be influenced to select a device ID outside the filtered set would grant access to a device that did not match the renderer's...

Missing Authorization

Overview org.webjars.npm:electron is a framework which lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Missing Authorization in the select-usb-device event callback, which did not validate the chosen device ID...

EUVD-2026-18931

Electron: USB device selection not validated against filtered device list...

PT-2026-30006

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Electron versions prior to 38.8.6, 39.8.1, 40.8.1, and 41.0.0 Description Electron applications calling app.requestSingleInstanceLock on macOS and Linux were susceptible to an out-of-bounds heap read when processing a specially crafted...

PT-2026-30000

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Electron versions prior to 38.8.6, 39.8.1, 40.8.0, and 41.0.0-beta.8 Description Electron applications utilizing the powerMonitor module may experience a use-after-free condition. Following the garbage collection of the native PowerMonitor...

PT-2026-30007

Impact When an iframe requests fullscreen, pointerLock, keyboardLock, openExternal, or media permissions, the origin passed to session.setPermissionRequestHandler was the top-level page's origin rather than the requesting iframe's origin. Apps that grant permissions based on the origin parameter ...