CVE-2026-34772
MediumCVSS 5.8Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk11th percentile - higher than 11% of all known CVEs
Summary
Electron, a framework for building desktop applications, has a use-after-free vulnerability when apps allow downloads and programmatically destroy sessions. If a session is torn down while a native save-file dialog is open, dismissing the dialog dereferences freed memory, potentially leading to a crash or memory corruption. This affects versions prior to 38.8.6, 39.8.0, 40.7.0, and 41.0.0-beta.8.
Risk Assessment
An attacker can cause application crashes or potentially exploit memory corruption to execute arbitrary code.
Recommendation
It is recommended to update Electron to versions 38.8.6, 39.8.0, 40.7.0, or 41.0.0-beta.8 (or later), which include the fix.
Original NVD description (English source)
Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Prior to versions 38.8.6, 39.8.0, 40.7.0, and 41.0.0-beta.8, apps that allow downloads and programmatically destroy sessions may be vulnerable to a use-after-free. If a session is torn down while a native save-file dialog is open for a download, dismissing the dialog dereferences freed memory, which may lead to a crash or memory corruption. Apps that do not destroy sessions at runtime, or that do not permit downloads, are not affected. This issue has been patched in versions 38.8.6, 39.8.0, 40.7.0, and 41.0.0-beta.8.