GHSA-g29v-q6h7-76wh

electerm's encrypt method not safe enough

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2026-45787

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	electerm	< 3.9.5	3.9.5

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

### 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

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://github.com/electerm/electerm/security/advisories/GHSA-g29v-q6h7-76wh web
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-45787 advisory
https://github.com/electerm/electerm/commit/9dd8295e37d53396b980cd45dfc5ed11ad79b937 web
https://github.com/electerm/electerm package
https://github.com/electerm/electerm/releases/tag/v3.9.5 web