The Lab · 2026-03-26 11:27:19 · GitHub Issues
A moderate-severity vulnerability in the Electron framework allows attackers with local write access to bypass critical integrity checks and tamper with application code. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-55305 and GHSA-vmqv-hx8q-j7mg, resides in the ASAR archive validation system. An attacker who can write to an applicati...
The Lab · 2026-04-03 06:27:06 · GitHub Issues
A critical cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability has been identified in a transcript feed, allowing for potential arbitrary code execution within an Electron application's renderer process. The flaw originates from the use of `innerHTML` to render user-supplied transcript data. If an attacker successfully injects HT...
The Lab · 2026-04-16 14:23:06 · GitHub Issues
A critical security vulnerability in the Electron framework, tracked as CVE-2026-34769, has forced a major version update. The flaw stemmed from an undocumented `commandLineSwitches` webPreference that allowed arbitrary command-line switches to be appended to the renderer process. This created a dangerous vector for ar...
The Lab · 2026-05-02 15:54:13 · GitHub Issues
A critical security vulnerability has been identified in the application's Electron renderer process, allowing full Node.js API access without proper context isolation. The renderer process (src/renderer/renderer.js) directly requires Electron modules via `require('electron')` on line 1, bypassing Electron's security a...
The Lab · 2026-05-05 17:31:43 · GitHub Issues
A security audit conducted on Codex v0.9.0 has identified a high-severity vulnerability (L-02) in Electron application development builds. The issue centers on how the framework handles the `ELECTRON_RENDERER_URL` environment variable during development mode. The main window process loads this variable directly via `lo...
The Lab · 2026-05-09 23:31:48 · GitHub Issues
A critical path traversal vulnerability has been disclosed in the plugin installation mechanism, where files are written to paths constructed from registry-supplied filenames without validating that destinations remain within the intended plugin directory. The flaw, classified as a zip-slip vulnerability, could allow a...