CVE-2026-72847: Canop broot

broot Terminal Escape Sequence Injection via Unsanitized File and Directory Names in the Tree View

CVSS 2.4 LowEPSS 0.0015 · 3rd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: VulnCheck) at 20 Aug 2026, 17:19 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Canop	broot pkg:cargo/broot	affected 1.58.0 and earlier semver Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers

CVE-2026-72847

CNA

VulnCheck

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-150

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
2.4	Low	4.0	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N	CNA (VulnCheck)Used for this record
4.6	Medium	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N	CNA (VulnCheck)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0015, the 3rd percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 20 Aug 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

github.com/Canop/broot/issues/1188 issue-tracking
github.com/Canop/broot/commit/4ba40f7d47af78457c7656f15eba71d63d97fce5 patch
github.com/Canop/broot/commit/0717a94b3c0efa19c7bbcfe0fb49a2374752a168 patch
github.com/Canop/broot/blob/v1.58.0/src/tree/tree_line.rs technical-description
github.com/Canop/broot/blob/v1.58.0/src/tree_build/builder.rs technical-description
github.com/Canop/broot product
www.vulncheck.com/advisories/broot-terminal-escape-sequence-injection-via-unsanitized-file-and-directory-names-in-the-tree-view third-party-advisory

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.