CVE-2026-42850

CVE-2026-42850 affects the Kitty terminal (GPU-based, cross-platform). In versions prior to 0.47.0, an injection is possible through a crafted kitty error that is echoed back to the terminal with CRLF and executed by the user’s shell. The attack requires the victim to connect to the attacker (e.g...

CVE-2026-42850 Kitty has a shell command injection

Kitty is a cross-platform GPU based terminal. In versions prior to 0.47.0, it is possible to inject commands within the subshell through kitty error. A special escape code will make kitty return an error, this error is not escaped and will be correctly echoed back to the terminal with CRLF, as su...