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.

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Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-g29v-q6h7-76wh electerm's encrypt method not safe enough
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First Time appeared Electerm
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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'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-28T17:17:56.385Z

Reserved: 2026-05-13T08:19:32.602Z

Link: CVE-2026-45787

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-05-28T18:16:35.977

Modified: 2026-05-28T18:16:35.977

Link: CVE-2026-45787

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Updated: 2026-05-28T19:45:25Z