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High · 7.4 CVE-2026-70604 EUVD-2026-53440GHSA-v3j7-r9gq-3gjw

Electron: Custom protocol with supportFetchAPI but not corsEnabled allows cross-origin reads

Published Aug 5, 2026 · Updated Aug 5, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Prior to 39.8.10, 40.9.3, 41.4.0, and 42.0.0, a custom scheme registered with supportFetchAPI: true but without corsEnabled: true was not subject to CORS enforcement. A page loaded from a remote origin could therefore fetch() or XMLHttpRequest that scheme cross-origin and read the full response body, rather than the read being blocked. Apps that serve sensitive data from such a scheme and load remote or untrusted content in a renderer are affected. This issue is fixed in versions 39.8.10, 40.9.3, 41.4.0, and 42.0.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
electron electron < 39.8.10, >= 40.0.0-alpha.1, < 40.9.3, >= 41.0.0-alpha.1, < 41.4.0, >= 42.0.0-alpha.1, < 42.0.0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm electron >= 42.0.0-alpha.1, < 42.0.0 42.0.0 GHSA-v3j7-r9gq-3gjw
npm electron >= 41.0.0-alpha.1, < 41.4.0 41.4.0 GHSA-v3j7-r9gq-3gjw
npm electron >= 40.0.0-alpha.1, < 40.9.3 40.9.3 GHSA-v3j7-r9gq-3gjw
npm electron < 39.8.10 39.8.10 GHSA-v3j7-r9gq-3gjw

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