CVE-2026-43941

critical

Published 2026-05-08 · Modified 2026-05-08

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CVSS v3

9.6

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.6

Description

Electerm has an unvalidated shell.openExternal that allows arbitrary protocol execution via terminal link click

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

96%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
npm	electerm	`<=3.8.15`
NPM	electerm	`<= 3.8.15`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
electerm_project	electerm	`{"endIncluding":"3.8.15"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-88 CWE-601

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.