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Advisory details: vulnrichment / CVE-2026-43944
Advisory ID vulnrichment/CVE-2026-43944
Aliases
Summary electerm is an open-sourced terminal/ssh/sftp/telnet/serialport/RDP/VNC/Spice/ftp client. From versions 3.0.6 to before 3.8.15, electerm is vulnerable to arbitrary local code execution via deep links, CLI --opts, or crafted shortcuts. Exploit requires clicking a crafted electerm://... link or opening a crafted shortcut/command that launches electerm with attacker-controlled opts. This issue has been patched in version 3.8.15.
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 (3)
CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
CWE-829 Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere
System Score Found at
cvssv4 9.4
ssvc Track
Reference id Reference type URL
0599e67069b00e376a2e962649aaad6096e63507 Other https://github.com/electerm/electerm/commit/0599e67069b00e376a2e962649aaad6096e63507
8a6a17951e96d715f5a231532bbd8303fe208700 Other https://github.com/electerm/electerm/commit/8a6a17951e96d715f5a231532bbd8303fe208700
a79e06f4a1f0ac6376c3d2411ef4690fa0377742 Other https://github.com/electerm/electerm/commit/a79e06f4a1f0ac6376c3d2411ef4690fa0377742
GHSA-mpm8-cx2p-626q Other https://github.com/electerm/electerm/security/advisories/GHSA-mpm8-cx2p-626q
v3.8.15 Other https://github.com/electerm/electerm/releases/tag/v3.8.15
No exploits are available.

No EPSS data available for this advisory.

Patch URL
There are no known patches.
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H Found at None
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Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2026-05-11T18:06:05Z/ Found at None

Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:N/T:T/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2026-05-11T18:06:05Z/

Decision: Track

Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2026/43xxx/CVE-2026-43944.json

Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2026-43944

View SSVC decision tree 
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 {'Automatable': 'no'},
 {'Technical Impact': 'total'},
 {'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
 {'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
 {'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]