CVE-2026-54673: electron-updater: Cross-origin redirect leaks `PRIVATE-TOKEN` and mixed-case `Authorization` credentials in `builder-util-runtime`
In electron-builder’s builder-util-runtime package, the HTTP redirect handler (HttpExecutor.prepareRedirectUrlOptions) only stripped a credential header whose key string matched exactly lowercase "authorization". Other credential-bearing headers — most notably PRIVATE-TOKEN (used by GitLab’s personal access token flow) and mixed-case Authorization (used by GitLab’s Bearer/OAuth flow) — were not stripped and could be forwarded to an attacker-controlled cross-origin redirect destination.
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-p2f4-r6v6-j797
- github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/commit/22a7532bd01b9fb42cff7c58d599c7ad683569fe
- github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/pull/9834
- github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/releases/tag/electron-builder@26.15.0
- github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/security/advisories/GHSA-p2f4-r6v6-j797
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-54673
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