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CVE-2026-54056

VendorkovidgoyalProductkittyDiscoveredJun 12, 2026UpdatedOct 25, 2026

Kitty is a cross-platform GPU based terminal. In versions 0.47.0 and 0.47.1, kitten dnd can allow a malicious remote drag-and-drop source to overwrite or truncate arbitrary files writable by the local kitty user. Remote text/uri-list drops are staged in a temporary directory, but on case-sensitive filesystems duplicate remote basenames are not de-duplicated. An attacker can first create a staged symlink and then send a same-name regular-file entry. The regular-file write uses utils.CreateAt() / openat(O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC) without O_NOFOLLOW, so it follows the attacker-created symlink and writes outside the staging directory before final overwrite confirmation runs. This appears related in class to the file-transfer symlink advisory, but it is a different bug: it affects kitten dnd…

CVSS v3.1
7.6 HIGH
EPSS
0.27%
probability of exploitation in 30 days
CISA KEV
Not listed
no confirmed exploitation reported
News coverage
0
sources referencing this CVE
Related IOCs
0
seen in the same coverage
EPSS Trend
Sep 25, 2026 → Oct 26, 2026
▼ 0.11pp
0.38% → 0.27% over 2 tracked changes
CVSS v3.1 Detail
Attack VectorNETWORK
Attack ComplexityLOW
Privileges RequiredLOW
User InteractionREQUIRED
ScopeCHANGED
ConfidentialityNONE
IntegrityHIGH
AvailabilityLOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:L
Connections
2 relationships
Timeline
disclosure → media coverage
Jun 12, 2026
Disclosure — published as a CVE record. · last revised by NVD Oct 25, 2026