# CVE-2026-113800: Electron: HID and USB permission checks can be attributed to the wrong origin

- Also known as: GHSA-FW47-9C62-H3VW, EUVD-2026-107347
- Severity: CVSS 5.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 42.11.3, 43.7.0, 44.3.0, 45.0.0-alpha.5
- Published: 2026-10-21 · Updated: 2026-10-23

## Affected

- electron: fixed in 42.11.3; from 43.0.0-alpha.1, fixed in 43.7.0; from 44.0.0-alpha.1, fixed in 44.3.0; from 45.0.0-alpha.1, fixed in 45.0.0-alpha.5
- electron (npm): from 45.0.0-alpha.1, fixed in 45.0.0-alpha.5
- electron (npm): from 44.0.0-alpha.1, fixed in 44.3.0
- electron (npm): from 43.0.0-alpha.1, fixed in 43.7.0
- electron (npm): fixed in 42.11.3

## Description

Electron is a framework for writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Prior to versions 42.11.3, 43.7.0, 44.3.0, and 45.0.0-alpha.5, hid and usb permission checks made from an iframe caused setPermissionCheckHandler to receive the top-level frame's origin and details instead of the requesting frame's. An application that delegated hid or usb to a cross-origin untrusted iframe and allowed device access with origin-based logic could therefore grant that embedded frame access intended for the top-level page. This issue is fixed in versions 42.11.3, 43.7.0, 44.3.0, and 45.0.0-alpha.5.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on electron, upgrade to a fixed version (42.11.3, 43.7.0, 44.3.0, 45.0.0-alpha.5) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/electron/electron/security/advisories/GHSA-fw47-9c62-h3vw
- https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53656
- https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53679
- https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53688
- https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53689
- https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/53736
- https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/22de0a3a06cfd3174fc6c59c3810ab5e1c91bf1a
- https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/36042b2e1b1c60c67b05ba0e95d1a34f608b9742
- https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/56cc43eb677d46b86b0d3f49b5fba71404ab1ff0
- https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/922073f8601479e93071f56f0745041291b206fd
- https://github.com/electron/electron/commit/c965cee73284c4b230a81d51a7db6115e55da8c0
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v42.11.3
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v43.7.0
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v44.3.0
- https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/tag/v45.0.0-alpha.5

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