CVE-2026-34770 (GCVE-0-2026-34770)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-03 23:46 – Updated: 2026-04-08 03:55
VLAI
Title
Electron: Use-after-free in PowerMonitor on Windows and macOS
Summary
Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Prior to versions 38.8.6, 39.8.1, 40.8.0, and 41.0.0-beta.8, apps that use the powerMonitor module may be vulnerable to a use-after-free. After the native PowerMonitor object is garbage-collected, the associated OS-level resources (a message window on Windows, a shutdown handler on macOS) retain dangling references. A subsequent session-change event (Windows) or system shutdown (macOS) dereferences freed memory, which may lead to a crash or memory corruption. All apps that access powerMonitor events (suspend, resume, lock-screen, etc.) are potentially affected. The issue is not directly renderer-controllable. This issue has been patched in versions 38.8.6, 39.8.1, 40.8.0, and 41.0.0-beta.8.
Severity
7 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
electron electron Affected: < 38.8.6
Affected: >= 39.0.0-alpha.1, < 39.8.1
Affected: >= 40.0.0-alpha.1, < 40.8.0
Affected: >= 41.0.0-alpha.1, < 41.0.0-beta.8
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