CVE-2024-56803 MEDIUM

CVE-2024-56803: Ghostty improperly handles window title sequences which can lead to arbitrary command execution

Vendor Ghostty-Org
Product ghostty
Weakness CWE-94 · Code injection
Published December 31, 2024
Last update January 2, 2025

CVSS base score

5.1/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction
Confidentiality
Integrity

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Ghostty is a cross-platform terminal emulator. Ghostty, as allowed by default in 1.0.0, allows attackers to modify the window title via a certain character escape sequence and then insert it back to the command line in the user's terminal, e.g. when the user views a file containing the malicious sequence, which could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands. This attack requires an attacker to send malicious escape sequences followed by convincing the user to physically press the "enter" key. Fixed in Ghostty v1.0.1.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

December 31, 2024 CVE published
January 2, 2025 Record updated