GHSA-8X5Q-PVF5-64MP

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-04-03 21:52 – Updated: 2026-04-06 23:40
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Summary
Electron: Use-after-free in offscreen shared texture release() callback
Details

Impact

Apps that use offscreen rendering with GPU shared textures may be vulnerable to a use-after-free. Under certain conditions, the release() callback provided on a paint event texture can outlive its backing native state, and invoking it after that point dereferences freed memory in the main process, which may lead to a crash or memory corruption.

Apps are only affected if they use offscreen rendering with webPreferences.offscreen: { useSharedTexture: true }. Apps that do not enable shared-texture offscreen rendering are not affected.

Workarounds

Ensure texture.release() is called promptly after the texture has been consumed, before the texture object becomes unreachable.

Fixed Versions

  • 42.0.0-alpha.5
  • 41.1.0
  • 40.8.5
  • 39.8.5

For more information

If there are any questions or comments about this advisory, send an email to security@electronjs.org

Severity ?
2.3 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
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    "nvd_published_at": "2026-04-06T16:16:36Z",
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  "id": "GHSA-8x5q-pvf5-64mp",
  "modified": "2026-04-06T23:40:20Z",
  "published": "2026-04-03T21:52:33Z",
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  "summary": "Electron: Use-after-free in offscreen shared texture release() callback"
}


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