CVE-2026-34767

Electron: HTTP Response Header Injection in custom protocol handlers and webRequest

State
Published
Severity
5.9 Medium
Published
Apr 3, 2026
Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Reserved
Mar 30, 2026

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Description

Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Prior to versions 38.8.6, 39.8.3, 40.8.3, and 41.0.3, apps that register custom protocol handlers via protocol.handle() / protocol.registerSchemesAsPrivileged() or modify response headers via webRequest.onHeadersReceived may be vulnerable to HTTP response header injection if attacker-controlled input is reflected into a response header name or value. An attacker who can influence a header value may be able to inject additional response headers, affecting cookies, content security policy, or cross-origin access controls. Apps that do not reflect external input into response headers are not affected. This issue has been patched in versions 38.8.6, 39.8.3, 40.8.3, and 41.0.3.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.9 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:NGitHub_M

Weaknesses

  • CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')
  • CWE-113 Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers ('HTTP Request/Response Splitting')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
electronelectron
  • < 38.8.6Affected
  • >= 39.0.0-alpha.1, < 39.8.3Affected
  • >= 40.0.0-alpha.1, < 40.8.3Affected
  • >= 41.0.0-alpha.1, < 41.0.3Affected

References

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