Bug 2488542 (CVE-2026-42851) - CVE-2026-42851 kitty: Kitty: Arbitrary code execution via crafted terminal output
Summary: CVE-2026-42851 kitty: Kitty: Arbitrary code execution via crafted terminal ou...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-42851
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2488611 2488613
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2026-06-12 21:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-06-12 22:20 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-12 21:01:43 UTC
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.


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