CVE-2026-70612 (GCVE-0-2026-70612)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-05 17:56
Modified
2026-08-05 19:03
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-284 - Improper Access Control
Summary
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 cause an OS-registered external application to be launched. The frame sandbox state was also not made available to the app permission handlers, affecting apps that render untrusted content in sandboxed iframes and grant the openExternal permission by default when no setPermissionRequestHandler is installed. This issue is fixed in 39.8.8, 40.9.0, 41.2.1, and 42.0.0-beta.3.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
electron electron Version: < 39.8.8
Version: >= 40.0.0-alpha.1, < 40.9.0
Version: >= 41.0.0-alpha.1, < 41.2.1
Version: >= 42.0.0-alpha.1, < 42.0.0-beta.3
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