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By the Year

In 2025 there have been 1 vulnerability in Kovidgoyal Kitty with an average score of 7.8 out of ten. Kitty did not have any published security vulnerabilities last year. That is, 1 more vulnerability have already been reported in 2025 as compared to last year.

Year Vulnerabilities Average Score
2025 1 7.80
2024 0 0.00
2023 0 0.00
2022 1 7.80
2021 0 0.00
2020 1 9.80
2019 0 0.00
2018 0 0.00

It may take a day or so for new Kitty vulnerabilities to show up in the stats or in the list of recent security vulnerabilties. Additionally vulnerabilities may be tagged under a different product or component name.

Recent Kovidgoyal Kitty Security Vulnerabilities

open_actions.py in kitty before 0.41.0 does not ask for user confirmation before running a local executable file

CVE-2025-43929 7.8 - High - April 20, 2025

open_actions.py in kitty before 0.41.0 does not ask for user confirmation before running a local executable file that may have been linked from an untrusted document (e.g., a document opened in KDE ghostwriter).

Origin Validation Error

In Kitty before 0.26.2, insufficient validation in the desktop notification escape sequence can lead to arbitrary code execution

CVE-2022-41322 7.8 - High - September 23, 2022

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.

Output Sanitization

The Graphics Protocol feature in graphics.c in kitty before 0.19.3

CVE-2020-35605 9.8 - Critical - December 21, 2020

The Graphics Protocol feature in graphics.c in kitty before 0.19.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code because a filename containing special characters can be included in an error message.

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