CVE-2025-54871: Electroncapture Electron Capture

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Electron Capture facilitates video playback for screen-sharing and capture. In versions 2.19.1 and below, the elecap app on macOS allows local unprivileged users to bypass macOS TCC privacy protections by enabling ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE. This environment variable allows arbitrary Node.js code to be executed via the -e flag, which runs inside the main Electron context, inheriting any previously granted TCC entitlements (such as access to Documents, Downloads, etc.). This issue is fixed in version 2.20.0.

Affected products

• Electroncapture Electron Capture: before 2.20.0 (fixed in 2.20.0)

Published 2025-08-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.