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UBUNTU-CVE-2026-54056 (CVE-2026-54056)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2026-06-12 21:16 – Updated: 2026-10-17 09:45 – Source website

Details

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-sensitive filesystems duplicate remote basenames are not de-duplicated. An attacker can first create a staged symlink and then send a same-name regular-file entry. The regular-file write uses utils.CreateAt() / openat(O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC) without O_NOFOLLOW, so it follows the attacker-created symlink and writes outside the staging directory before final overwrite confirmation runs. This appears related in class to the file-transfer symlink advisory, but it is a different bug: it affects kitten dnd remote drag-and-drop staging, uses different vulnerable code (kittens/dnd/drop.go and tools/utils/file_at_fd.go), and reproduces on commit 4aa4a5c0567a92553a8c20a88a4352da637fca5d, after the file-transfer O_NOFOLLOW fix. Version 0.47.2 patches the issue.

Severity

7.6 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:L

7.1 (High)


                    
                      CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:L

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-54056	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-54056	REPORT
	https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/security/advi…	REPORT

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CVE-2026-54056 (GCVE-0-2026-54056)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-12 20:06 – Updated: 2026-06-15 13:03

Title

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

Summary

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-sensitive filesystems duplicate remote basenames are not de-duplicated. An attacker can first create a staged symlink and then send a same-name regular-file entry. The regular-file write uses `utils.CreateAt()` / `openat(O_RDWR|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC)` without `O_NOFOLLOW`, so it follows the attacker-created symlink and writes outside the staging directory before final overwrite confirmation runs. This appears related in class to the file-transfer symlink advisory, but it is a different bug: it affects `kitten dnd` remote drag-and-drop staging, uses different vulnerable code (`kittens/dnd/drop.go` and `tools/utils/file_at_fd.go`), and reproduces on commit `4aa4a5c0567a92553a8c20a88a4352da637fca5d`, after the file-transfer `O_NOFOLLOW` fix. Version 0.47.2 patches the issue.

Severity

7.6 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:L

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-06-15 13:02 UTC

CWE

CWE-59 - Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')

Assigner

GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7886 records in the last 180 days details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/security/advi…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
kovidgoyal	kitty	Affected: >= 0.47.0, < 0.47.2

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