CRITICAL: CVE-2026-45787 (CVSS 9.1) — electerm project electerm
CVE: CVE-2026-45787
CVSS: 9.1 (3.1) — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Severity: CRITICAL
Status: Critical advisory
Affected
- electerm project electerm
Summary
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.
Verified Sources
References
- https://github.com/electerm/electerm/commit/9dd8295e37d53396b980cd45dfc5ed11ad79b937
- https://github.com/electerm/electerm/security/advisories/GHSA-g29v-q6h7-76wh
_Validated by the Lyrie Threat Intelligence Pipeline — 3 independent sources confirmed before publication. No speculation._
Lyrie Verdict
A vulnerability of this severity is exactly what Lyrie's anti-rogue-AI defense is built for: continuous, autonomous monitoring that doesn't wait for human reaction time.
Validated sources
- [1]NVD
- [2]GitHub Advisory
- [3]MITRE