CVE-2026-45787

electerm's encrypt method not safe enough

Published May 28, 2026 CVSS 4.0 · 6 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-g29v-q6h7-76wh electerm's encrypt method not safe enough
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Electerm Project
Electerm Project electerm
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:electerm_project:electerm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Electerm Project
Electerm Project electerm
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Electerm
Electerm electerm
Vendors & Products Electerm
Electerm electerm
Type Values Removed Values Added
Description 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.
Title electerm's encrypt method not safe enough
Weaknesses CWE-326
CWE-329
CWE-353
CWE-759
CWE-916
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 6, 'vector': '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'}

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
May 29, 2026, 3:29 PM
Reserved
May 13, 2026, 8:19 AM
Status
Analyzed
Published
May 28, 2026, 6:16 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 10:52 AM