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Advisory details: vulnrichment / CVE-2026-41501
Advisory ID vulnrichment/CVE-2026-41501
Aliases
Summary 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 0.0
Risk
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches Package Commit Patches Details
Weaknesses (1)
CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 9.8
ssvc Track
Reference id Reference type URL
https://github.com/electerm/electerm/commit/59708b38c8a52f5db59d7d4eff98e31d573128ee
GHSA-8x35-hph8-37hq Other https://github.com/electerm/electerm/security/advisories/GHSA-8x35-hph8-37hq
v3.3.8 Other https://github.com/electerm/electerm/releases/tag/v3.3.8
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Found at None
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2026-05-08T11:19:45Z/ Found at None

Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2026-05-08T11:19:45Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2026/41xxx/CVE-2026-41501.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2026-41501

View SSVC decision tree 
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 {'Automatable': 'yes'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'total'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]