Sandboxing

Description

Electron uses the Chromium engine for most of its core functionality. It therefore, inherits Chrome's sandbox security model. Specifically, electron uses the chrome-sandbox for its render process. chrome-sandbox restricts access to system resources and helps to prevent malicious code from harming the host OS.

setuid Bit

chrome-sandbox requires special root permissions, or Electron will refuse to run and will exit with a SIGTRAP error. See Sandboxing Issue for instructions on how to set the correct file permissions for the chrome-sandbox binary.