CVE-2026-41501: Electerm Project Electerm

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• Electerm Project Electerm: before 3.3.8 (fixed in 3.3.8)

Published 2026-05-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.