CVE-2026-70609: Electron: DevTools JavaScript Injection via Unsanitized Dock State Parameter
The mode option of webContents.openDevTools() was not sanitized before use by the DevTools frontend. If an attacker can influence this value, script under their control may run in the DevTools context, which in unsandboxed configurations has access to Node.js.
Apps are only affected if untrusted input can reach the mode argument of openDevTools(), or if untrusted content can call openDevTools() on a <webview> it embeds. Apps that only ever pass a fixed dock mode are not affected.
References
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-4f78-qhmw-8j8m
- github.com/electron/electron/commit/04614eed17986bddc43eb509ec870424ee6a47d1
- github.com/electron/electron/commit/2046ae87731d80a7b535512ae19acb529e10e33b
- github.com/electron/electron/commit/969741f9f847c5c583f6bbc63ca22549dbd954ce
- github.com/electron/electron/commit/efc4d3c6b6f1c04f658ca0d9d2512dcfe78eb7ba
- github.com/electron/electron/pull/50665
- github.com/electron/electron/pull/50666
- github.com/electron/electron/pull/50667
- github.com/electron/electron/pull/50668
- github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v39.8.7
- github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v40.9.0
- github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v41.2.0
- github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v42.0.0-beta.1
- github.com/electron/electron/security/advisories/GHSA-4f78-qhmw-8j8m
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-70609
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