High
Security advisory
In Kitty before 0.26.2, insufficient validation in the desktop notification escape sequence can lead to arbitrary code execution. The user must display attacker-controlled content in the terminal, then click on a notification popup.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-41322
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 2 Nov 2026, 23:30 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Kitty before 0.26.2, insufficient validation in the desktop notification escape sequence can lead to arbitrary code execution. The user must display attacker-controlled content in the terminal, then click on a notification popup.
osv:CVE-2022-41322
Complete source record
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