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Medium · 5.7 CVE-2026-70609 EUVD-2026-53566GHSA-4f78-qhmw-8j8m

Electron: DevTools JavaScript Injection via Unsanitized Dock State Parameter

Published Aug 5, 2026 · Updated Aug 6, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Prior to 39.8.7, 40.9.0, 41.2.0, and 42.0.0-beta.1, the mode option of webContents.openDevTools() was not sanitized before use by the DevTools frontend. If an attacker can influence this value, script under their control may run in the DevTools context, which in unsandboxed configurations has access to Node.js, including when untrusted input reaches the mode argument of openDevTools() or untrusted content calls openDevTools() on a webview it embeds. This issue is fixed in 39.8.7, 40.9.0, 41.2.0, and 42.0.0-beta.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
electron electron < 39.8.7, >= 40.0.0-alpha.1, < 40.9.0, >= 41.0.0-alpha.1, < 41.2.0, >= 42.0.0-alpha.1, < 42.0.0-beta.1 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm electron < 39.8.7 39.8.7 GHSA-4f78-qhmw-8j8m
npm electron >= 40.0.0-alpha.1, < 40.9.0 40.9.0 GHSA-4f78-qhmw-8j8m
npm electron >= 41.0.0-alpha.1, < 41.2.0 41.2.0 GHSA-4f78-qhmw-8j8m
npm electron >= 42.0.0-alpha.1, < 42.0.0-beta.1 42.0.0-beta.1 GHSA-4f78-qhmw-8j8m

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