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SCA: security update for electron (GHSA-2p8c-gr87-2676)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 476847

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
 Prior to versions 42.11.3, 43.7.0, 44.3.0, and 45.0.0-alpha.6, Electron treated pages opened into a new
 window from links as application-initiated navigations instead of preserving the page containing the link
 as the initiator. The resulting top-level request could be classified as same-site, causing
 SameSite=Strict cookies to be sent and Sec-Fetch-Site not to identify the initiating page. An application
 that loads untrusted content and permits it to open new windows could therefore allow that content to make
 a credentialed request to another site that relies on SameSite cookies for CSRF protection. This issue is
 fixed in versions 42.11.3, 43.7.0, 44.3.0, and 45.0.0-alpha.6. (CVE-2026-113796)

Solution

Update the electron library and its related packages to version 42.11.3 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2p8c-gr87-2676

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 476847

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 10/22/2026

Updated: 10/22/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.1

Percentile: 8.25

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-113796

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.2

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/22/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/21/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-113796

cwe: CWE-352