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.
Published:Mar 9, 2026
Last Modified:Apr 16, 2026
EPS:Mar 9, 2026
EPSS Score:0.00037
CVSS Score:6.3
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Ghostty
Product
Ghostty
Ghostty
Ghostty
Vendor
Ghostty-org
Product
Ghostty
Ghostty-org
Ghostty
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
