CVE-2026-41501

critical

Description

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.

References

https://github.com/electerm/electerm/security/advisories/GHSA-8x35-hph8-37hq

https://github.com/electerm/electerm/releases/tag/v3.3.8

https://github.com/electerm/electerm/commit/59708b38c8a52f5db59d7d4eff98e31d573128ee

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-05-08

Updated: 2026-05-08

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00251