CVE-2026-45787CWE-326CWE-329CWE-353CWE-759CWE-916

electerm's encrypt method not safe enough

Medium · published May 28, 2026

CVSS v4.0

6.0

EPSS

Percentile

3.7

In the wild

Unconfirmed

What it is

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.

The record

Technical detail

CVSS v4.0: 6.0 · MEDIUM
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
EPSS: 0.00148 · 3.7th percentile
Weaknesses: CWE-326 · Inadequate Encryption Strength; CWE-329 · Generation of Predictable IV with CBC Mode; CWE-353 · Missing Support for Integrity Check; CWE-759 · Use of a One-Way Hash without a Salt; CWE-916 · Use of Password Hash With Insufficient Computational Effort
Published: 2026-05-28T17:17Z

EPSS history

Timeline

28 MAY 17:17Z
electerm's encrypt method not safe enough
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