CVE-2026-33642

A flaw was found in Kitty, a cross-platform GPU-based terminal. A remote attacker, by sending specially crafted escape sequences to a Kitty terminal, can exploit an integer wrapping vulnerability in the handlecomposecommand function. This vulnerability allows for out-of-bounds memory access, whic...

CVE-2024-56803 Ghostty improperly handles window title sequences which can lead to arbitrary command execution

Ghostty is a cross-platform terminal emulator. Ghostty, as allowed by default in 1.0.0, allows attackers to modify the window title via a certain character escape sequence and then insert it back to the command line in the user's terminal, e.g. when the user views a file containing the malicious...

CVE-2023-52558 OpenBSD 7.4 and 7.3 m_split() network buffer kernel crash

In OpenBSD 7.4 before errata 002 and OpenBSD 7.3 before errata 019, a network buffer that had to be split at certain length that could crash the kernel after receiving specially crafted escape sequences...

CVE-2023-40216

OpenBSD 7.3 before errata 014 is missing an argument-count bounds check in console terminal emulation. This could cause incorrect memory access and a kernel crash after receiving crafted DCS or CSI terminal escape sequences...

gnome-terminal allows arbitrary command execution when viewing files containing crafted escape sequences

Overview gnome-terminal may allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands via crafted escape sequences. Description gnome-terminal affords users the ability to utilize an escape sequence to "export" the title of the current window title directly to the shell command line. By viewing a...