CVE-2026-26982

medium

Description

Ghostty is a cross-platform terminal emulator. Ghostty allows control characters such as 0x03 (Ctrl+C) in pasted and dropped text. These can be used to execute arbitrary commands in some shell environments. This attack requires an attacker to convince the user to copy and paste or drag and drop malicious text. The attack requires user interaction to be triggered, but the dangerous characters are invisible in most GUI environments so it isn't trivially detected, especially if the string contents are complex. Fixed in Ghostty v1.3.0.

References

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/security/advisories/GHSA-4jxv-xgrp-5m3r

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10746

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/commit/fe7427ed2a1a02aef85495b384cfb8f11ee5efc9

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-03-10

Updated: 2026-03-10

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.3

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00025