CVE-2026-45787 – electerm’s encrypt method not safe enough

CVE ID :CVE-2026-45787

Published : May 28, 2026, 6:16 p.m. | 15 minutes ago

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.

Severity: 6.0 | MEDIUM

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