CVE-2026-41501 PUBLISHED

electerm has Command Injection Vulnerability via runLinux function

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 20.04.2026 Published: 08.05.2026 Updated: 08.05.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 9.8

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	High
Privileges Required	None	Integrity Impact	High
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	High

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	electerm
Product	electerm
Versions	Version < 3.3.8 is affected

References

Problem Types

CWE-77: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection') CWE