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CVSS 7.5 HIGH Vulnerability

CVE-2026-54673: electron-updater: Cross-origin redirect leaks `PRIVATE-TOKEN` and mixed-case `Authorizati…

Summary In electron-builder's builder-util-runtime package, the HTTP redirect handler (HttpExecutor.prepareRedirectUrlOptions) only stripped a credential header whose key string matched exactly lowercase "authorization"…

7.5CVSS Score
HIGHSeverity
NOCISA KEV
0.2%EPSS Score
VulnerabilityImpact Type

📋 Vulnerability Details

CVE IDCVE-2026-54673
Vendornpm
Affected Productbuilder-util-runtime
Vulnerability TypeVulnerability
CVSS Score7.5 (HIGH)
EPSS Score0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Actively Exploited❌ No known exploitation
Patch StatusSee Vendor Advisory →
Reported ByCYBERDUDEBIVASH SENTINEL APEX Intelligence (via github_advisories)

🔬 Technical Analysis

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Summary In electron-builder's builder-util-runtime package, the HTTP redirect handler (HttpExecutor.prepareRedirectUrlOptions) only stripped a credential header whose key string matched exactly lowercase "authorization". Other credential-bearing headers — most notably PRIVATE-TOKEN (used by GitLab's personal access token flow) and mixed-case Authorization (used by GitLab's Bearer/OAuth flow) — were not stripped and could be forwarded to an attacker-controlled cross-origin redirect destination. ---

Details

Root cause HttpExecutor.prepareRedirectUrlOptions (introduced in builder-util-runtime via [PR #9211](https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/pull/9211), first released in v26.0.20) performed its cross-origin credential strip with a single case-sen

🎯 Known Indicators of Compromise

{"type":"url","value":"https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/pull/9211),","confidence_score":0.82,"first_seen":"2026-07-24","source_count":1}

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