CVE-2026-26982

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.

CVSS v3 6.3 MEDIUM

6.3^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 3.4

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact LOW

Availability Impact LOW

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/commit/fe7427ed2a1a02aef85495b384cfb8f11ee5efc9	Patch
https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10746	Issue Tracking Patch
https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/security/advisories/GHSA-4jxv-xgrp-5m3r	Patch Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:ghostty:ghostty:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-03-10 07:42

Updated : 2026-03-13 17:28

NVD link : CVE-2026-26982

Mitre link : CVE-2026-26982

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-26982

JSON object : View

Products Affected

ghostty

ghostty

CWE

CWE-78

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

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