electerm is an open-sourced terminal/ssh/sftp/telnet/serialport/RDP/VNC/Spice/ftp client. Prior to 3.11.11, electerm constructs operating system commands in src/app/lib/fs.js by interpolating untrusted file paths into the rmrf(), mv(), and cp() functions. A malicious SSH or SFTP server can provide a filename containing quote characters and shell metacharacters, and a victim can cause that filename to reach the affected operation during remote-to-local transfer, conflict renaming, copying, moving, or removal. The generated `rm -rf`, mv, `cp -r`, PowerShell Remove-Item, Move-Item, or Copy-Item command can then interpret the filename as shell syntax. This allows arbitrary command execution with the electerm desktop user's privileges on POSIX and Windows systems, enabling data exfiltration, file modification, malware installation, or denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 3.11.11.
Advisories
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Github GHSA |
GHSA-v5ff-xmfp-p245 | electerm has Command Injection in File System Operations (rmrf, mv, cp) |
Fixes
Solution
No solution given by the vendor.
Workaround
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History
Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:15:00 +0000
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| Description | electerm is an open-sourced terminal/ssh/sftp/telnet/serialport/RDP/VNC/Spice/ftp client. Prior to 3.11.11, electerm constructs operating system commands in src/app/lib/fs.js by interpolating untrusted file paths into the rmrf(), mv(), and cp() functions. A malicious SSH or SFTP server can provide a filename containing quote characters and shell metacharacters, and a victim can cause that filename to reach the affected operation during remote-to-local transfer, conflict renaming, copying, moving, or removal. The generated `rm -rf`, mv, `cp -r`, PowerShell Remove-Item, Move-Item, or Copy-Item command can then interpret the filename as shell syntax. This allows arbitrary command execution with the electerm desktop user's privileges on POSIX and Windows systems, enabling data exfiltration, file modification, malware installation, or denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 3.11.11. | |
| Title | electerm: Command Injection in File System Operations (rmrf, mv, cp) | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-78 | |
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| Metrics |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-19T14:30:12.718Z
Reserved: 2026-05-28T14:33:01.179Z
Link: CVE-2026-49255
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-19T15:17:06.893
Modified: 2026-08-19T15:17:06.893
Link: CVE-2026-49255
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-08-19T18:00:05Z
Weaknesses
Github GHSA