GHSA-9f4c-93c8-jc8g: electron (CVE-2026-70608)

Electron: Sandboxed iframe can bypass the allow-popups restriction via the OpenURL navigation path

CVSS 7.2 HighEPSS 0.0043 · 37th percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 5 Aug 2026, 17:27 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed in
electron	npm	>=42.0.0-alpha.1, <42.0.1 \|\| >=40.0.0-alpha.1, <41.10.3 \|\| <39.8.10	42.0.1, 41.10.3, 39.8.10

Identifiers

GHSA-9f4c-93c8-jc8g · CVE-2026-70608

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-693 · CWE-1021

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.2	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N	CNA (GitHub_M)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0043, the 37th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the GitHub Advisory Database, published 5 Aug 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

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