electerm's encrypt method not safe enough
### Impact _Insecure sync encryption: 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._ ### Patches - https://github.com/electerm/electerm/commit/9dd8295e37d53396b980cd45dfc5ed11ad79b937 ### Workarounds - No ### References - Report / credit: https://github.com/Curly-Haired-Baboon - Electerm releases: https://github.com/electerm/electerm/releases
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-45787US | critical9.1 | — | ||
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… | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://github.com/electerm/electermPACKAGE
- https://github.com/electerm/electerm/commit/9dd8295e37d53396b980cd45dfc5ed11ad79b937WEB
- https://github.com/electerm/electerm/releases/tag/v3.9.5WEB
- https://github.com/electerm/electerm/security/advisories/GHSA-g29v-q6h7-76whWEB
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45787ADVISORY
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