Medium 6.0Published May 28, 2026

CVE-2026-45787electerm's encrypt method not safe enough

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 26, 2026, 10:23 AM ET)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

electerm is an open-sourced terminal/ssh/sftp/telnet/serialport/RDP/VNC/Spice/ftp client. Prior to 3.9.5, deterministic AES-192-CBC with a fixed zero IV, constant KDF salt, and no MAC leads to confidentiality and integrity failures for synced bookmark/profile data. Attackers can crack common passwords across installs and perform undetected ciphertext bit-flips to alter config/bookmarks. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.9.5.

CVSS: 6.0 MEDIUM (v4.0, CNA)CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-326, CWE-329, CWE-353, CWE-759, CWE-916
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: May 29, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

electerm electerm electerm:electerm (from the name)	before 3.9.5	CNA record
electerm_project electerm electerm_project:electerm	before 3.9.5	NVD

References

https://github.com/electerm/electerm/security/advisories/GHSA-g29v-q6h7-76whx-refsource-confirm, patch, vendor-advisory
https://github.com/electerm/electerm/commit/9dd8295e37d53396b980cd45dfc5ed11ad79b937x-refsource-misc, patch

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