Permissive Cross-domain Policy with Untrusted Domains Affecting org.webjars.npm:electron package, versions [,39.8.10)[40.0.0-alpha.2,40.9.3)[41.0.0-alpha.1,41.4.0)[42.0.0-alpha.1,42.0.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.28% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-18563331
  • published10 Aug 2026
  • disclosed5 Aug 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 5 Aug 2026

NewCVE-2026-70604  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-942  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.webjars.npm:electron to version 39.8.10, 40.9.3, 41.4.0, 42.0.0 or higher.

Overview

org.webjars.npm:electron is a framework which lets you write cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Permissive Cross-domain Policy with Untrusted Domains via the custom protocol handler when supportFetchAPI is enabled but corsEnabled is not set. An attacker can access sensitive data from a custom scheme by performing cross-origin requests from a remote origin.

Note: This is only exploitable if an application registers a custom scheme with supportFetchAPI: true and corsEnabled: false, and loads remote or untrusted content in a renderer.

Workaround

This vulnerability can be mitigated by setting corsEnabled: true on custom schemes and validating the request Origin in the protocol handler before returning sensitive data.

CVSS Base Scores

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