GHSA-5rqw-r77c-jp79

Electron: AppleScript injection in app.moveToApplicationsFolder on macOS

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2026-34779

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	electron	< 38.8.6	38.8.6
npm	electron	>= 39.0.0-alpha.1, < 39.8.1	39.8.1
npm	electron	>= 40.0.0-alpha.1, < 40.8.0	40.8.0
npm	electron	>= 41.0.0-alpha.1, < 41.0.0-beta.8	41.0.0-beta.8

Details

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### Impact On macOS, `app.moveToApplicationsFolder()` used an AppleScript fallback path that did not properly handle certain characters in the application bundle path. Under specific conditions, a crafted launch path could lead to arbitrary AppleScript execution when the user accepted the move-to-Applications prompt. Apps are only affected if they call `app.moveToApplicationsFolder()`. Apps that do not use this API are not affected. ### Workarounds There are no app side workarounds, developers must update to a patched version of Electron. ### Fixed Versions * `41.0.0-beta.8` * `40.8.0` * `39.8.1` * `38.8.6` ### For more information If there are any questions or comments about this advisory, please email [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

References

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