AIKIDO-2026-376316
electron is vulnerable to Type Confusion
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High Risk
This Affects:
electronTL;DR
electron's embedded Chromium media GPU path on Linux can confuse plane types when constructing native pixmap planes from renderer-controlled video input. A compromised renderer feeding crafted video can reach the type-confused construction logic. Pre-fix versions risk sandbox escape through malformed plane metadata. The backport enforces safe numeric ranges for native pixmap plane construction.
Who does this affect?
You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range and ship electron desktop apps on Linux.
Background info
electron is vulnerable to Type Confusion in versions 40.0.0 - 40.10.2 and 41.0.0 - 41.7.1.
How to fix this
Upgrade the electron library to the patch version.
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