Security researchers have found a security flaw in Electron, a software framework that has been used in the past half-decade for building a wealth of popular desktop applications. The software framework is a custom API wrapped around the Node.js server-side JavaScript server. Apps built on top of Electron include Microsoft’s Skype and Visual Studio Code, GitHub’s Atom code editor, the Brave browser, and Signal apps for services like Twitch, Twitch, Discord, Basecamp, Slack, Ghost, WordPress.com, and many more.
Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/security-flaw-impacts-electron-based-apps/