GHSA-9pf5-hg6p-4pwp
Electron: Permission Check Handler Receives Main Frame Origin Instead of Requesting Iframe Origin
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Impact
For serial-port and media (camera / microphone) permission checks made from an iframe, the `requestingOrigin` passed to `session.setPermissionCheckHandler` was the top-level frame's origin rather than the requesting frame's. Origin-based handler logic could therefore grant a cross-origin iframe device access intended only for the top-level origin.
Apps are only affected if they use `setPermissionCheckHandler` with origin-based logic and embed cross-origin iframes with delegated device permissions. Apps that base the decision on `details.securityOrigin`, or that do not embed such iframes, are not affected.
### Workarounds
Check `details.securityOrigin` instead of `requestingOrigin` for these permissions, or do not delegate device permissions to untrusted iframes.
### Fixed Versions
* `42.0.0-beta.1`
* `41.2.0`
* `40.9.0`
* `39.8.7`
### For more information
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References
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