{"id":83151,"date":"2026-08-05T23:22:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T19:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/?p=83151"},"modified":"2026-08-05T23:22:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T19:52:26","slug":"cve-2026-70605-electron-http-redirect-followed-into-local-file-loader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-70605-electron-http-redirect-followed-into-local-file-loader\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-70605 &#8211; Electron: HTTP redirect followed into local file loader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-70605<\/p>\n<p>Description :Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Prior to 39.8.8, 40.9.0, 41.2.1, and 42.0.0-beta.3, when following HTTP redirects, net.fetch() and net.request() did not restrict which schemes a redirect could target. A remote server could redirect a request to a local resource, and if the app returns or forwards the response body, local file contents could be disclosed. Apps are only affected if they make net requests to attacker-influenced URLs with redirects followed and expose the response body. This issue is fixed in versions 39.8.8, 40.9.0, 41.2.1, and 42.0.0-beta.3.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-70605 Description :Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Prior to 39.8.8, 40.9.0, 41.2.1, and 42.0.0-beta.3, when following HTTP redirects, net.fetch() and net.request() did not restrict which schemes a redirect could target. A remote server could redirect a request to a local resource, and if the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83154,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83151\/revisions\/83154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}