CVE-2026-70610

Electron: contextBridge object copy honors prototype setters

State
Published
Severity
5.4 Medium
Published
Aug 5, 2026
Updated
Aug 6, 2026
Reserved
Aug 4, 2026

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Description

Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Prior to 39.8.9, 40.9.2, 41.2.2, and 42.0.0-beta.4, objects copied across the contextBridge boundary from untrusted content could carry an attacker-influenced prototype, enabling prototype-pollution-style attacks against preload code despite context isolation being enabled. Apps are only affected if their preload code accepts object arguments from untrusted content and reads properties from them without own-property checks, while apps that only accept primitive arguments or validate object arguments are not affected. This issue is fixed in 39.8.9, 40.9.2, 41.2.2, and 42.0.0-beta.4.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-1321 Improperly Controlled Modification of Object Prototype Attributes ('Prototype Pollution')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
electronelectron
  • < 39.8.9Affected
  • >= 40.0.0-alpha.1, < 40.9.2Affected
  • >= 41.0.0-alpha.1, < 41.2.2Affected
  • >= 42.0.0-alpha.1, < 42.0.0-beta.4Affected

References

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