{"@context":"https://openvex.dev/ns/v0.2.0","@id":"https://database.harborguard.co/cve/CVE-2026-42851/vex.json","author":"HarborGuard Database","role":"Document Creator","timestamp":"2026-06-16T13:12:55.145Z","version":1,"tooling":"HarborGuard Database (https://database.harborguard.co)","statements":[{"vulnerability":{"name":"CVE-2026-42851","@id":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-42851","description":"Kitty is a cross-platform GPU based terminal. In versions prior to 0.47.0, a program able to write bytes to a kitty terminal — a remote SSH peer, a downloaded file viewed with `cat`, a log line, an email body rendered in `less`, an issue body in a TUI, etc. — can cause kitty to execute attacker-supplied Python inside the running kitty process, with the user's full privileges. There is no approval prompt, no remote-control permission requirement, no shell-integration interaction, no clipboard tou"},"products":[{"@id":"cpe:2.3:a:kovidgoyal:kitty:\\<_0.47.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","identifiers":{"cpe23":"cpe:2.3:a:kovidgoyal:kitty:\\<_0.47.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"}}],"status":"affected","action_statement":"No fixed version is published yet; monitor the upstream advisory.","timestamp":"2026-06-16T13:12:55.145Z"}]}