CVE-2026-86711

Description

electerm before 5.3.15 exposes 40+ main-process functions through an unvalidated Electron IPC handler with no function-name allowlist or sender validation. Renderer-side script execution can invoke openFileWithEditor and other functions with arbitrary arguments to execute system commands in the main process.

References

https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/electerm-before-5.3.15-arbitrary-command-execution-via-unvalidated-runglobalasync-ipc-bridge

https://github.com/electerm/electerm/security/advisories/GHSA-qc8j-6jr2-qr32

https://github.com/electerm/electerm/releases/tag/v5.3.15

https://github.com/electerm/electerm/issues/4509

https://github.com/electerm/electerm/commit/b1f880534b8ae066c5d25bbf291ca7437e052750

https://github.com/electerm/electerm/blob/v5.3.5/src/app/lib/ipc.js

https://github.com/electerm/electerm

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

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CVSS v4