electron-best-practices
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Audited by Socket on Sep 15, 2026
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SecuritySecurityreferences/ipc/electron-trpc.md
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references/ipc/electron-trpc.md
No clear supply-chain malware behavior or deliberate obfuscation is evident in the shown fragments. However, the main-process readFile procedure uses a renderer-controlled path directly in fs.promises.readFile with only type-level validation, and error messages/cause propagation embed user-controlled path information. If authorization, path allowlisting, and filesystem confinement are not enforced elsewhere, this design can enable high-impact unintended local file disclosure and information leakage via errors/logs.
Confidence: 62%Severity: 70%
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