CVE-2026-41501: 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…

PriorityP266critical9.8CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRNUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

1.30%

66.9th percentile

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.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
electerm	electerm	< 3.3.8	3.3.8
electerm_project	electerm	< 3.3.8	3.3.8

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