Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

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 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource via the openExternal. An attacker can cause an OS-registered external...

CVE-2026-70612 Electron: Sandboxed iframes can launch external protocol handlers

Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Prior to 39.8.8, 40.9.0, 41.2.1, and 42.0.0-beta.3, requests to open external protocol URLs from web content did not take iframe sandbox restrictions into account, so a sandboxed iframe could...