AIKIDO-2026-569146
electron is vulnerable to Use After Free
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High Risk
This Affects:
electronTL;DR
electron's bundled WebRTC video encoder adapters can be destroyed while encoders remain initialized. Crafted pages that start and tear down WebRTC capture sessions can hit the use-after-free during encoder teardown. Pre-fix versions risk arbitrary code execution through crafted HTML. The backport releases video encoders before destruction and in simulcast adapter destructors.
Who does this affect?
You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range.
Background info
electron is vulnerable to Use After Free 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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