Electron up to 42.11.15/43.8.0/44.9.0/45.0.0-beta.5 certificate validation

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Electron up to 42.11.15/43.8.0/44.9.0/45.0.0-beta.5. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. Such manipulation leads to certificate validation. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-115570. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit. You should upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Electron up to 42.11.15/43.8.0/44.9.0/45.0.0-beta.5. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a certificate validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-295. The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Prior to 42.11.16, 43.8.1, 44.9.1, and 45.0.0-beta.6, Electron does not block compromised eMudhra intermediate certificates in Chromium networking, Node.js tls, Node.js https, or Node.js fetch. An attacker who holds a certificate issued through one of these intermediates and can intercept network traffic can impersonate a TLS server to an affected application. This issue is fixed in versions 42.11.16, 43.8.1, 44.9.1, and 45.0.0-beta.6.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-115570 since 10/23/2026. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1587.003.

Upgrading to version 42.11.16, 43.8.1, 44.9.1 or 45.0.0-beta.6 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Electron

Version

• 42.11.0
• 42.11.1
• 42.11.2
• 42.11.3
• 42.11.4
• 42.11.5
• 42.11.6
• 42.11.7
• 42.11.8
• 42.11.9
• 42.11.10
• 42.11.11
• 42.11.12
• 42.11.13
• 42.11.14
• 42.11.15
• 43.0
• 43.1
• 43.2
• 43.3
• 43.4
• 43.5
• 43.6
• 43.7
• 43.8.0
• 44.0
• 44.1
• 44.2
• 44.3
• 44.4
• 44.5
• 44.6
• 44.7
• 44.8
• 44.9.0
• 45.0.0-beta.0
• 45.0.0-beta.1
• 45.0.0-beta.2
• 45.0.0-beta.3
• 45.0.0-beta.4
• 45.0.0-beta.5

Website

• Product: https://github.com/electron/electron/

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