Command Injection Affecting electerm package, versions <3.3.8
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- published21 Apr 2026
- disclosed16 Apr 2026
- creditZhengmin Yu, FORIMOC
Introduced: 16 Apr 2026
NewCVE-2026-41500 (opens in a new tab)Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) are common identifiers for publicly known security vulnerabilities
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) is a category system for software weaknesses
How to fix?
Upgrade electerm to version 3.3.8 or higher.
Overview
electerm is an open-sourced terminal/ssh/telnet/serialport/sftp client
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection via the runMac and runLinux functions. An attacker can execute arbitrary system commands and compromise the system by supplying malicious remote release metadata that is incorporated into shell commands without validation.