Stack overflow

2024-02-0907:16:00

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kitty vulnerability

stack-based buffer overflow

input sanitization

arbitrary code execution

nvd

8.5 High

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

20.9%

JSON

KiTTY versions 0.76.1.13 and before is vulnerable to a stack-based buffer overflow via the username, occurs due to insufficient bounds checking and input sanitization (at line 2600). This allows an attacker to overwrite adjacent memory, which leads to arbitrary code execution.