CVE-2026-95832: Kovid Goyal kitty

Reflected unknown field names in the kitty colour control escape code allow command execution in the user's shell

CVSS 9.3 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.0016 · 5th percentile

Critical, because:

CVSS score 9.3: 9.0 or more.

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: Secur0) at 25 Sept 2026, 12:54 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
Kovid Goyal	kitty	affected 0.47.3 to before 0.49.0 semver Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers

CVE-2026-95832

CNA

Secur0

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-74

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
9.3	Critical	4.0	CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H	CNA (Secur0)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0016, the 5th percentile, on 9 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 25 Sept 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/commit/03fbdad855490470233954bc810e517027e5e640 patch
github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/commit/57bb144d96c0f9d48a2b0a6d43c9a23d2a091cbf related
github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/releases/tag/v0.49.0 release-notes
www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-54057 related
secur0.com/en/cna/cve-list/cve-2026-95832-kitty-color-control-command-execution third-party-advisorytechnical-description

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.