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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.8

CVE-2026-34772 json

Electron: Use-after-free in download save dialog callback

published 2026-04-03 7 mo ago modified 2026-07-24 3 mo ago also EUVD-2026-18943 , GHSA-9w97-2464-8783

cvss
5.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 11%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Prior to versions 38.8.6, 39.8.0, 40.7.0, and 41.0.0-beta.8, apps that allow downloads and programmatically destroy sessions may be vulnerable to a use-after-free. If a session is torn down while a native save-file dialog is open for a download, dismissing the dialog dereferences freed memory, which may lead to a crash or memory corruption. Apps that do not destroy sessions at runtime, or that do not permit downloads, are not affected. This issue has been patched in versions 38.8.6, 39.8.0, 40.7.0, and 41.0.0-beta.8.

Patch / fix

  • npm electron 38.8.6, 39.8.0, 40.7.0, 41.0.0-beta.7
  • atom electron 38.8.6, 39.8.0, 40.7.0, 41.0.0-beta.8
  • electronjs electron 38.8.6, 39.8.0, 40.7.0, 41.0.0-beta.8

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-34772 updated cvss 5.8

Electron: Electron: Use-after-free vulnerability leads to memory corruption or crash

  • Red Hat Build of Podman Desktop podman-desktop-macos-1-0, podman-desktop-windows-1-0 Red Hat Build of Podman Desktop - Tech Preview rhdesktop/rh-podman-desktop-ext-openshift-local-rhel10
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
7 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 11% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
GitHub 3.1 5.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L
NVD 3.1 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm electron
<38.8.6
>=39.0.0-alpha.1, <39.8.0
>=40.0.0-alpha.1, <40.7.0
>=41.0.0-alpha.1, <41.0.0-beta.7
38.8.6
39.8.0
40.7.0
41.0.0-beta.7

Affected products

  • electron electron

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.