CVE-2026-91784 (GCVE-0-2026-91784)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-02 08:38 – Updated: 2026-10-02 08:42 X_Open Source Unsupported When Assigned
VLAI
Title
Argument Injection leading to arbitrary process termination in gotop
Summary
cjbassi/gotop is vulnerable to local argument injection via process termination functionality. The process name is passed directly to pkill without sanitization. A local attacker can create a process with a crafted name beginning with -- (e.g. containing a target user's UID). When the user running gotop invokes the kill feature on that process, pkill interprets the crafted name as a command-line option, terminating all processes owned by the targeted user. Product is no longer actively supported and the vulnerabilities have not been fixed. Vulnerability was confirmed at version 3.0.0; other versions were not tested but may also be affected.
Severity
4.8 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE
  • CWE-88 - Improper neutralization of argument delimiters in a command ('argument injection')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
cjbassi gotop Affected: 3.0.0 (semver)
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Date Public
2026-10-02 00:00
Credits
Michał Majchrowicz (AFINE Team) Marcin Wyczechowski (AFINE Team)
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