How serious is CVE-2026-26982?

This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 8.8 out of 10, classified as HIGH severity. No public exploit code has been identified yet.

Which products are affected by CVE-2026-26982?

CVE-2026-26982 affects ghostty ghostty. Check the full CVE details for specific version information.

How do I fix CVE-2026-26982?

To remediate CVE-2026-26982, check for security patches from ghostty. Apply all available updates and security patches. If no patch is available, implement recommended workarounds or security controls to mitigate the risk.

CVE-2026-26982

High

|8.8

No Exploit

Plain English Summary

AI-powered analysis for quick understanding

This vulnerability allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on a user's system by tricking them into copying and pasting or dragging and dropping specially crafted text that contains hidden control characters. The attack requires user interaction and is difficult to detect because the harmful characters are not visible in most graphical interfaces.

Technical 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.

CVSS Vector Analysis

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionRequired

Confidentiality ImpactHigh

Integrity ImpactHigh

Availability ImpactHigh

ScopeUnchanged

Vector String

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

Exploit Resources

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Official References

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Est. Bounty

$4,789($1K-$5K)

Vendor Response

Grade APatched in 3 days

Quick Information

Published

Mar 10, 2026

28 days ago

Last Modified

Mar 13, 2026

25 days ago

Vendor

ghostty

Product

ghostty