Bug 2495432 (CVE-2026-54673) - CVE-2026-54673 electron-updater: electron-builder: Electron-updater: Information disclosure via unstripped credential headers during HTTP redirects
Summary: CVE-2026-54673 electron-updater: electron-builder: Electron-updater: Informat...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-54673
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security
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Reported: 2026-06-30 23:03 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-07-01 12:43 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-30 23:03:18 UTC
electron-updater allows for automatic updates for Electron apps. Prior to 9.7.0, the HTTP redirect handler (HttpExecutor.prepareRedirectUrlOptions) only stripped a credential header whose key string matched exactly lowercase "authorization", exposing credentials. 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. This issue has been fixed in version 9.7.0.


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