CVE-2026-41501

critical · 9.8

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.

9.8

CVSS

1.3%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

69th

EPSS percentile

2026-05-08

Published

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

Weaknesses

CWE-77

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions
electerm_project	electerm	< 3.3.8

Check a specific version with /api/v1/cve/match.

References

https://github.com/electerm/electerm/commit/59708b38c8a52f5db59d7d4eff98e31d573128ee
https://github.com/electerm/electerm/releases/tag/v3.3.8
https://github.com/electerm/electerm/security/advisories/GHSA-8x35-hph8-37hq

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2026-41501