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CVE-2026-41501

39
FAUCET Score

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.

First published: May 8, 2026Last modified: May 8, 2026

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.3.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:electerm_project:electerm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.30%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
67.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0130 is in the 54th percentile among its peer group of 36,835 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: electermFixed in: 3.3.8

Vendor Advisories (1)

npmGHSA-8x35-hph8-37hqcritical

electerm has Command Injection via runLinux funtion

Apr 24, 2026

References

github.com / electerm/electerm/commit/59708b38c8a52f5db59d7d4eff98e31d573128ee
Patch
github.com / electerm/electerm/releases/tag/v3.3.8
Release Notes
github.com / electerm/electerm/security/advisories/GHSA-8x35-hph8-37hq
PatchVendor Advisory