electron has 17 CVEs on record. Disclosure cadence is accelerating: 16 in the last 90 days against 1 in the 90 before. The busiest recent month was August 2026 with 16. The median CVSS is 5.9 (medium), with 1 rated critical. None have a confirmed exploitation report.
CVEs per month
Last 12 months, by publish date
- Exploited share
- 0% vs 1% corpus
- Median CVSS
- 5.9
- Publish → KEV
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- Last 90 days
- 16 prev 1
Weakness classes
Products
- electron 17
Worst active — by depth score
CVE-2026-54257CriticalElectron: Buffer performs incorrect byte length calculations resulting in heap buffer under/overflow52CVE-2026-70604High· 7.4Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS41CVE-2026-70601High· 7.5Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS41CVE-2026-70608High· 7.2Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS40CVE-2026-70611Medium· 6.9Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS38
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17 CVEsRSS
CVE-2026-70612Medium· 5.4Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS
Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Prior to 39.8.8, 40.9.0, 41.2.1, and 42.0.0-beta.3, requests to open external protocol URLs from web content did not take iframe sand…
CVE-2026-70608High· 7.2Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS
Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Prior to 39.8.10, 41.10.3, and 42.0.1, a sandboxed iframe without the allow-popups keyword could still open a new window or trigger s…
CVE-2026-70609Medium· 5.7Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS
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…
CVE-2026-70610Medium· 5.4Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS
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 car…
CVE-2026-70611Medium· 6.9Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS
Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Prior to 39.8.9, 40.9.2, 41.2.1, and 42.0.0-beta.3, the DevTools reveal in file manager action could launch the target file rather th…
CVE-2026-70603Medium· 6.0Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS
Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Prior to 39.8.6, 40.9.0, 41.1.1, and 42.0.0-beta.1, shell.openPath() did not reject paths containing embedded null bytes. Apps that p…
CVE-2026-70602Medium· 6.6Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS
Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Prior to 39.8.8, 40.9.0, 41.2.1, and 42.0.0-beta.3, extension tab and scripting APIs were not scoped to the extension's own session. …
CVE-2026-70604High· 7.4Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS
Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Prior to 39.8.10, 40.9.3, 41.4.0, and 42.0.0, a custom scheme registered with supportFetchAPI: true but without corsEnabled: true was…
CVE-2026-70605Medium· 5.9Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS
Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Prior to 39.8.8, 40.9.0, 41.2.1, and 42.0.0-beta.3, when following HTTP redirects, net.fetch() and net.request() did not restrict whi…
CVE-2026-70606Medium· 5.9Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS
Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Prior to 40.10.6, 41.9.1, 42.5.1, and 43.0.0, when a custom protocol handler returned a ProtocolResponse with a url and no session, E…
CVE-2026-70607Medium· 5.3Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS
Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Prior to 39.8.8, 40.9.0, 41.2.1, and 42.0.0-beta.3, some window options supplied by web content in the window.open() features string …
CVE-2026-70597Medium· 6.3Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS
Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Prior to 39.8.8, 40.9.0, 41.2.1, and 42.0.0-beta.3, the check Electron uses on macOS to confirm it was launched by a same-signed pare…
CVE-2026-70598Low· 3.9Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS
Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Prior to 39.8.10, 40.9.0, 41.2.1, and 42.0.0-beta.3, offscreen rendering frame data received from the GPU process was not fully valid…
CVE-2026-70599Medium· 5.9Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS
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, serial-port and media permission checks made from an iframe passed the top-level …
CVE-2026-70600Low· 3.1Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS
Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Prior to 39.8.8, 40.9.0, 41.2.1, and 42.0.0-beta.3, the native autofill popup could be positioned by a cross-origin iframe outside th…
CVE-2026-70601High· 7.5Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS
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.5, apps that expose Promise-returning functions to web content via contextBridge may…
CVE-2026-54257CriticalElectron: Buffer performs incorrect byte length calculations resulting in heap buffer under/overflow
Electron: Buffer performs incorrect byte length calculations resulting in heap buffer under/overflow