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Permalink CVE-2026-42851
7.8 HIGH
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 3.1
  • Attack Vector (AV): Local (L)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
  • Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
  • User Interaction (UI): Required (R)
  • Scope (S): Unchanged (U)
  • Confidentiality (C): High (H)
  • Integrity (I): High (H)
  • Availability (A): High (H)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Local (L)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
  • Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
  • Modified User Interaction (MUI): Required (R)
  • Modified Confidentiality (MC): High (H)
  • Modified Scope (MS): Unchanged (U)
  • Modified Integrity (MI): High (H)
  • Modified Availability (MA): High (H)
created 1 month, 4 weeks ago Activity log
  • Created suggestion
@kitty-edit DCS + --color=geninclude vulnerable to Unauthenticated in-process RCE

Kitty is a cross-platform GPU based terminal. In versions prior to 0.47.0, a program able to write bytes to a kitty terminal — a remote SSH peer, a downloaded file viewed with `cat`, a log line, an email body rendered in `less`, an issue body in a TUI, etc. — can cause kitty to execute attacker-supplied Python inside the running kitty process, with the user's full privileges. There is no approval prompt, no remote-control permission requirement, no shell-integration interaction, no clipboard touch, and no editor interaction. Version 0.47.0 fixes the issue.

Affected products

kitty
  • ==< 0.47.0

Matching in nixpkgs

pkgs.kitty

Fast, feature-rich, GPU based terminal emulator

pkgs.kittysay

Cowsay, but with a cute kitty :3

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    • nixpkgs-26.05-darwin 1.1.1

pkgs.kitty-img

Print images inline in kitty

  • nixos-unstable 1.1.0
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    • nixpkgs-26.05-darwin 1.1.0