GHSA-fw47-9c62-h3vwMediumCVSS 5.4

Electron: HID and USB permission checks can be attributed to the wrong origin

Published
October 21, 2026
Last Modified
October 21, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-113800 →

📋 Description

Impact

For hid and usb permission checks made from an iframe, session.setPermissionCheckHandler was given the top-level frame's origin and details instead of the requesting frame's. Apps that allow these permissions based on origin could grant an embedded frame access intended for the top-level page.

You're only affected if you use setPermissionCheckHandler with origin-based logic for hid or usb and embed cross-origin iframes with allow="hid" or allow="usb". Apps that don't delegate those features to untrusted iframes are not affected.

Workarounds

Don't add allow="hid" / allow="usb" to untrusted iframes, or make the decision in your select-hid-device / select-usb-device handler using details.frame.

Fixed Versions

  • 45.0.0-alpha.5
  • 44.3.0
  • 43.7.0
  • 42.11.3

For more information

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🎯 Affected products4

  • npm/electron:>= 45.0.0-alpha.1, < 45.0.0-alpha.5
  • npm/electron:>= 44.0.0-alpha.1, < 44.3.0
  • npm/electron:>= 43.0.0-alpha.1, < 43.7.0
  • npm/electron:< 42.11.3

🔗 References (16)