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Subverting Electron Apps via Insecure Preload

The article categorizes four ways Electron preload scripts can undermine renderer isolation, including leaked Node globals, dangerous exported functions, sandbox bypasses, and prototype tampering without context isolation. Wire and Discord case studies turn renderer code execution into arbitrary file writes or privileged IPC leading to native command execution.

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Luca Carettoni

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