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1 vulnerability found for powerlevel10k by romkatv

CVE-2026-75483 (GCVE-0-2026-75483)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-17 20:36
Modified
2026-08-20 15:24
CWE
  • CWE-150 - Improper Neutralization of Escape, Meta, or Control Sequences
Summary
powerlevel10k fails to neutralize control characters in the package.json version field when rendering the package prompt segment. Attackers can inject raw escape bytes in the version string to emit arbitrary terminal control sequences on each prompt render when the shell enters affected directories.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
romkatv powerlevel10k Version: 0   <
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