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Paper/Archive/CVE-2026-41501

CVE-2026-41501

electerm electerm — electerm has Command Injection Vulnerability via runLinux function

EPSS 1%CVSS 9.8
critical.is priorityof 100
43
CVSS 9.8 (CNA)9.8 / 10 × 3029.4Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 70.2.702 × 2014.0No public exploit+100.0SSVC exploitation: none+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

electerm is an open-sourced terminal/ssh/sftp/telnet/serialport/RDP/VNC/Spice/ftp client. Prior to version 3.3.8, a command injection vulnerability exists in github.com/elcterm/electerm/npm/install.js:130. The runLinux() function appends attacker-controlled remote version strings directly into an exec("rm -rf ...") command without validation. This issue has been patched in version 3.3.8.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
electerm< 3.3.8–CNA

Scores by source

GitHub_M (CNA)9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total

References

refgithub.com/electerm/electerm/security/advisories/GHSA-8x35-hph8-37hqrefgithub.com/electerm/electerm/commit/59708b38c8a52f5db59d7d4eff98e31d573128eerefgithub.com/electerm/electerm/releases/tag/v3.3.8