High 8.8Published Mar 10, 2026

CVE-2026-26982Ghostty is a cross-platform terminal emulator.

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 09:00 UTC)

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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: 8.8 HIGH (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-78
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Analyzed
Record last updated: Jun 17, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

ghostty ghostty ghostty:ghostty	before 1.3.0	NVD

References

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/commit/fe7427ed2a1a02aef85495b384cfb8f11ee5efc9patch
https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/pull/10746issue-tracking, patch
https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/security/advisories/GHSA-4jxv-xgrp-5m3rpatch, vendor-advisory

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