Use After Free Affecting electron package, versions <38.8.6>=39.0.0-alpha.1 <39.8.1>=40.0.0-alpha.2 <40.8.0>=41.0.0-alpha.1 <41.0.0-beta.8
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- published3 Apr 2026
- disclosed3 Apr 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 3 Apr 2026
NewCVE-2026-34770 (opens in a new tab)Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) are common identifiers for publicly known security vulnerabilities
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
Upgrade electron to version 38.8.6, 39.8.1, 40.8.0, 41.0.0-beta.8 or higher.
Overview
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 Use After Free in the powerMonitor function. An attacker can cause memory corruption or application crashes by triggering session-change events on Windows or system shutdown events on macOS after the native object has been garbage-collected, leading to dereferencing of freed memory.