CVE-2023-29198

CVE-2023-29198 affects Electron apps that use contextIsolation with contextBridge. The vulnerability is a context isolation bypass that occurs when a main-world exposed API returns an unserializable object (e.g., a canvas rendering context), allowing access from the renderer to the isolated Elect...

CVE-2022-29247

CVE-2022-29247 — Electron IPC leakage via nodeIntegrationInSubFrames . The issue affects Electron versions prior to 18.0.0-beta.6, 17.2.0, 16.2.6, and 15.5.5. A renderer with JS execution can gain access to a new renderer process when nodeIntegrationInSubFrames is enabled, which can expose access...

CVE-2023-39956

CVE-2023-39956 affects Electron: out-of-package code execution when an Electron app is launched as a command-line executable with an attacker-controlled working directory and the ability to write files there. Impact is described as low risk by threat-models, but higher due to bypassing protection...

CVE-2026-70608

Summary: Electron before versions 39.8.10, 41.10.3, and 42.0.1 allowed a sandboxed iframe without the allow-popups keyword to open a new window or trigger setWindowOpenHandler with no user interaction via OpenURL navigation, bypassing the iframe popup restriction. What’s affected: Electron apps e...

CVE-2023-23623

The CVE-2023-23623 issue is in Electron where a Content-Security-Policy that disables eval (script-src without unsafe-eval) is not respected in renderers with sandbox: false. Affected are Electron 22 and 23 series; the vulnerability can allow unintended use of eval() or new Function, expanding th...

CVE-2022-21718

CVE-2022-21718 affects Electron. Affected versions (< 17.0.0-alpha.6, < 16.0.6, < 15.3.5, < 14.2.4,

CVE-2022-36077

The CVE-2022-36077 vulnerability affects the Electron framework in versions prior to 21.0.0-beta.1, 20.0.1, 19.0.11, and 18.3.7, where following redirects to file:// URLs can trigger Windows NTLM credential leakage via SMB targets. The issue is triggered when Electron delays a redirect check betw...

CVE-2026-34769

CVE-2026-34769 (Electron) affects Electron versions prior to 38.8.6, 39.8.0, 40.7.0, and 41.0.0-beta.8. An undocumented commandLineSwitches webPreference allowed arbitrary switches to be appended to the renderer process command line. When apps construct webPreferences from external or untrusted i...

CVE-2020-15174

CVE-2020-15174 affects Electron: the will-navigate event can be bypassed when a sub-frame performs a top-frame navigation across sites in several pre-11 releases (8.5.1, 9.3.0, 10.0.1, 11.0.0-beta.1). Affected versions vs patched versions are explicitly listed; remediation is to upgrade to the pa...

CVE-2018-1000136

The Electron framework (versions 1.7 to 1.7.12, 1.8 to 1.8.3, and 2.0.0 to 2.0.0-beta.3) contains an improper handling of values vulnerability within Webviews . This flaw can lead to remote code execution (RCE). The vulnerability is particularly relevant for applications that allow third-party co...

CVE-2022-29257

Summary: CVE-2022-29257 affects Electron up to version 18.0.0-beta.6 (and older 17.2.0, 16.2.6, 15.5.5). If an attacker controls a victim app’s update server/storage, they can serve update packages that pass code signing validation but run malicious code in some components. The vulnerability aris...

CVE-2026-70600

The Electron framework (specifically org.webjars.npm:electron ) is vulnerable to improper restriction of rendered UI layers. Due to a flaw in handling cross-origin iframes, a native autofill popup can be positioned outside the bounds of a cross-origin iframe and over the embedding page's UI. This...

CVE-2026-70601

CVE-2026-70601 affects Electron, a framework for building cross‑platform desktop apps with JavaScript/HTML/CSS. The issue arises when apps expose Promise‑returning functions to web content via contextBridge, allowing a context isolation bypass. In environments where a sandbox is absent or nodeInt...

CVE-2018-15685

GitHub Electron versions 1.7.15, 1.8.7, 2.0.7, and 3.0.0-beta.6 are affected by a WebPreferences vulnerability when using IFRAME with nativeWindowOpen: true or sandbox: true, enabling remote code execution. The issue arises in Electron’s WebPreferences handling and can be triggered in nested wind...

CVE-2026-34764

The CVE-2026-34764 issue affects Electron apps that use offscreen rendering with GPU shared textures (webPreferences.offscreen: { useSharedTexture: true }). The root cause is a use-after-free where the release() callback for a paint-event texture can outlive its backing native state, causing a de...

CVE-2026-70598

CVE-2026-70598 affects Electron: prior to 39.8.10, 40.9.0, 41.2.1, and 42.0.0-beta.3, offscreen rendering frame data from the GPU process was not fully validated by the main process. A compromised GPU process could cause the main process to read out‑of‑bounds memory while producing paint images, ...

CVE-2026-70609

Electron contains a vulnerability where the mode option for webContents.openDevTools() was not sanitized by the DevTools frontend prior to versions 39.8.7, 40.9.0, 41.2.0, and 42.0.0-beta.1. If an attacker can influence this value, script execution could occur within the DevTools context, which i...

CVE-2026-34768

CVE-2026-34768 affects Electron on Windows prior to 38.8.6, 39.8.1, 40.8.0, and 41.0.0-beta.8. The flaw: app.setLoginItemSettings({openAtLogin: true}) writes the executable path to the Run registry key without quotes. If the installation path contains spaces and an attacker can write to a directo...

CVE-2026-70597

Electron on macOS had a bug where the code-sign check that verifies a launched app’s parent process could be bypassed by a local attacker. This affects Electron versions prior to 39.8.8, 40.9.0, 41.2.1, and 42.0.0-beta.3. By exploiting this, a local attacker could bypass the fuse-based hardening ...

CVE-2026-70611

CVE-2026-70611 affects Electron: prior to 39.8.9, 40.9.2, 41.2.1, and 42.0.0-beta.3, the DevTools reveal in file manager action could launch the target file instead of revealing it. An attacker with a separate means of running script inside the DevTools frontend (e.g., a malicious DevTools extens...

CVE-2026-34781

CVE-2026-34781 affects Electron before versions 39.8.5, 40.8.5, 41.1.0, and 42.0.0-alpha.5. Affected code path involves clipboard.readImage() when the system clipboard contains image data that cannot be decoded. In such cases a null bitmap is passed to image construction, leading to a controlled ...

CVE-2026-70599

CVE-2026-70599 concerns Electron. Before versions 39.8.7, 40.9.0, 41.2.0, and 42.0.0-beta.1, permission checks for serial-port and media accessed via an iframe could pass the top‑level origin to session.setPermissionCheckHandler instead of the requesting iframe origin. This allowed an origin‑base...

CVE-2020-4076

CVE-2020-4076 in Electron: context isolation bypass allows code in the main world of the renderer to reach into the isolated Electron context and perform privileged actions when contextIsolation is enabled. Affected versions are Electron before 7.2.4, 8.2.4, and 9.0.0-beta21. The vulnerability is...

CVE-2026-34766

CVE-2026-34766 affects Electron; the select-usb-device event callback did not validate the chosen device ID against the filtered device list presented to the handler. This could allow an app to select a device ID outside the renderer’s requested filters or exclusionFilters, potentially granting a...

CVE-2026-70610

Electron contextBridge prototype-pollution vulnerability: objects copied from untrusted content into preload code could carry attacker-influenced prototypes even with context isolation. Affected versions prior to 39.8.9, 40.9.2, 41.2.2, and 42.0.0-beta.4 are fixed in those respective releases. Wo...

CVE-2026-70602

Vulnerability summary: CVE-2026-70602 affects Electron where extension tab and scripting APIs were not scoped to an extension’s own session. A malicious or compromised extension loaded into one session could navigate, script, and read from windows belonging to a different session when apps load C...

CVE-2026-70606

Electron prior to versions 40.10.6, 41.9.1, 42.5.1, and 43.0.0 has a vulnerability where a ProtocolResponse with a URL and no session could cause the upstream request to go through the defaultSession instead of the registering session. This could allow a cached response to be reused across otherw...

CVE-2026-70607

CVE-2026-70607 affects Electron: prior to 39.8.8, 40.9.0, 41.2.1, and 42.0.0-beta.3, window.open() features strings could apply untrusted window options to a new BrowserWindow if the app does not override child window options via setWindowOpenHandler or overrideBrowserWindowOptions. This could le...

CVE-2026-70605

CVE-2026-70605 (Electron) concerns HTTP redirect handling via net.fetch() and net.request(). Prior to 39.8.8, 40.9.0, 41.2.1, and 42.0.0-beta.3, redirects were not restricted to safe schemes, enabling a remote server to redirect to a local resource and potentially disclose local file contents if ...

CVE-2026-70604

In Electron, a vulnerability affects custom schemes registered with supportFetchAPI: true but without corsEnabled: true. Prior to versions 39.8.10, 40.9.3, 41.4.0, and 42.0.0, such schemes were not subject to CORS enforcement, allowing a page loaded from a remote origin to fetch() or XMLHttpReque...

CVE-2020-15096

CVE-2020-15096 affects Electron before versions 6.1.1, 7.2.4, 8.2.4, and 9.0.0-beta21. A context isolation bypass allows code running in the renderer’s main world context to reach into the isolated Electron context and perform privileged actions. The issue impacts apps that enable contextIsolatio...

CVE-2026-34772

CVE-2026-34772 – Electron Use-After-Free in download save dialog callback . The issue affects Electron applications that allow downloads and programmatically destroy sessions. If the session is torn down while a native save-file dialog for a download is open, dismissing the dialog may dereference...

CVE-2026-34778

Electron: Service worker spoof IPC replies flaw allows a session service worker to spoof internal IPC replies used by webContents.executeJavaScript, causing the main-process promise to resolve with attacker-controlled data. Affected only if service workers are registered and the result of execute...

CVE-2026-70612

The vulnerability CVE-2026-70612 affects Electron. It occurs when web content in sandboxed iframes can trigger external protocol handlers, because iframe sandbox restrictions were not applied to openExternal requests and the frame state wasn’t exposed to permission handlers. This could allow an O...

CVE-2026-34775

Electron: nodeIntegrationInWorker was not correctly scoped in shared renderer processes. Affected versions prior to 38.8.6, 39.8.4, 40.8.4, and 41.0.0 may allow workers in frames with nodeIntegrationInWorker: false to gain Node.js integration in certain process-sharing scenarios. This could enabl...

CVE-2026-34780

Electron context isolation bypass via contextBridge VideoFrame transfer affects versions 39.0.0-alpha.1–39.7.x, 40.0.0-alpha.1–40.6.x, and 41.0.0-alpha.1–41.0.0-beta.7 (inclusive) where passing VideoFrame objects across the contextBridge can let a main-world attacker access the isolated world and...

CVE-2020-15215

CVE-2020-15215 affects Electron before 11.0.0-beta.6, 10.1.2, 9.3.1, or 8.5.2. It is a context isolation bypass whereby code running in the main world context in a renderer can access the isolated Electron context when apps use both contextIsolation and sandbox: true, or contextIsolation and node...

CVE-2021-39184

Electron vulnerability CVE-2021-39184 affects sandboxed renderers extracting thumbnails of arbitrary files via the createThumbnailFromPath API. Older Electron versions (before 11.5.0, 12.1.0, and 13.3.0) are impacted; fixes are provided in 11.5.0+, 12.1.0+, and 13.3.0+. All documented workarounds...

CVE-2023-44402

CVE-2023-44402 concerns Electron where ASAR integrity checks can be bypassed when embeddedAsarIntegrityValidation and onlyLoadAppFromAsar fuses are enabled on macOS. The issue requires an attacker with write access to the app’s filesystem (e.g., the .app bundle) to exploit, potentially allowing l...

CVE-2020-4075

Summary: CVE-2020-4075 affects Electron before 7.2.4, 8.2.4, and 9.0.0-beta21, allowing arbitrary local file read by defining unsafe window options on a child window opened with window.open. Root cause: unsafe window options on child windows. Impact: local file read via manipulated window options...

CVE-2026-34770

CVE-2026-34770 concerns Electron apps using the powerMonitor module. The issue is a use-after-free: after the native PowerMonitor object is garbage-collected, OS-level resources (a Windows message window; a macOS shutdown handler) may still reference freed memory. A subsequent session-change even...

CVE-2026-34771

CVE-2026-34771 concerns Electron: use-after-free in WebContents when an asynchronous permission request handler is registered and a frame navigates or a window closes while a permission callback is pending for fullscreen, pointer-lock, or keyboard-lock requests. The issue affects apps that regist...

CVE-2026-34774

Electron is affected when apps use offscreen rendering (webPreferences.offscreen: true) and allow child windows via window.open(). In such cases, if the parent offscreen WebContents is destroyed while a child window remains open, subsequent paint frames on the child can dereference freed memory, ...

CVE-2026-34767

CVE-2026-34767 affects Electron before 38.8.6, 39.8.3, 40.8.3, and 41.0.3. It describes HTTP response header injection when apps register custom protocol handlers (protocol.handle / protocol.registerSchemesAsPrivileged) or modify headers via webRequest.onHeadersReceived if attacker-controlled inp...

CVE-2018-1000118

Technical details for CVE-2018-1000118 are not publicly available in the provided documents. Monitor for updates.

CVE-2017-16151

CVE-2017-16151 describes a remote code execution vulnerability in Google Chromium that affects Electron apps. The issue, affecting all recent Electron versions when loading remote content, can be triggered regardless of the sandbox option being enabled. The exposed component is Electron’s integra...

CVE-2020-26272

CVE-2020-26272 (Electron IPC frame routing) : In Electron, IPC messages sent from the main process to a subframe in the renderer process (via webContents.sendToFrame , or in handlers using event.reply or the remote module) can be delivered to the wrong frame in versions before fixed releases. Aff...

CVE-2020-4077

In Electron, a context isolation bypass affects versions prior to 7.2.4, 8.2.4, and 9.0.0-beta21 where code in the main world of a renderer can access the isolated Electron context when both contextIsolation and contextBridge are used. The issue is fixed in 7.2.4, 8.2.4, and 9.0.0-beta.21. Mitiga...

CVE-2026-34779

CVE-2026-34779 affects Electron on macOS prior to patches 38.8.6, 39.8.1, 40.8.0, and 41.0.0-beta.8. The vulnerability arises in the AppleScript fallback path used by app.moveToApplicationsFolder(), which failed to properly handle certain characters in the application bundle path. Under specific ...

CVE-2026-34765

CVE-2026-34765 : Electron prior to 39.8.5, 40.8.5, 41.1.0, and 42.0.0-alpha.5 has a window.open() targeting flaw where the named-window lookup is not scoped to the opener’s browsing context group. A renderer could navigate a child window opened by a different renderer if both share the same targe...