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SCA: security update for electerm (GHSA-wxw2-rwmh-vr8f)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 440927

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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:150. The
 runMac() function appends attacker-controlled remote releaseInfo.name directly into an exec("open ...")
 command without validation. This issue has been patched in version 3.3.8. (CVE-2026-41500)

Solution

Update the electerm library and its related packages to version 3.3.8 or later.

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wxw2-rwmh-vr8f

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 440927

Version: Revision 1.7

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 4/27/2026

Updated: 6/22/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.76

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-41500

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/16/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/16/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-41500

cwe: CWE-77