CVE-2026-54056 Kitty has an arbitrary file overwrite via symlink following in `kitten dnd` remote drop staging

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-sensitiv...

CVE-2026-54056

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-sensitiv...

CVE-2026-54056 Kitty has an arbitrary file overwrite via symlink following in `kitten dnd` remote drop staging

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-sensitiv...

CVE-2026-54056

Kitty (GPU-based terminal) vulnerability CVE-2026-54056 affects versions 0.47.0–0.47.1 where a remote drag-and-drop via kitten dnd staging can overwrite or truncate arbitrary files writable by the local user. The attack chains a staged remote text/uri-list, exploiting a race in staging where a st...