CVE-2026-122137 (GCVE-0-2026-122137)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-11-04 20:36
Modified
2026-11-04 20:36
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
6.7 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-377 - Insecure Temporary File
Summary
Powerlevel10k before 1.20.19 contains an insecure temporary directory vulnerability in the bundled gitstatus/install script that reuses attacker-creatable directories when mktemp fails. Local attackers can pre-create the predictable gitstatus-install.tmp directory to replace the extracted gitstatusd binary, which then executes with the victim's privileges.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| romkatv | powerlevel10k |
Version: 0 < 1.20.19 |
||
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Sightings
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Nomenclature
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