High 8.4Published May 15, 2026

CVE-2026-45038Tabby: Dragging and Dropping a File into Tabby Can Lead to Code Execution

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 28, 2026, 2:10 AM ET)

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Exploited in the last 30 days

Tabby (formerly Terminus) is a highly configurable terminal emulator. Prior to 1.0.233, since Tabby does not escape control characters from file paths when dragging and dropping a file into it, code execution can be achieved. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.0.233.

CVSS: 8.4 HIGH (v4.0, CNA)CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Weakness (CWE): CWE-150
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: May 20, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

Eugeny tabby eugeny:tabby (from the name)	before 1.0.233	CNA record
tabby tabby tabby:tabby	before 1.0.233	NVD

References

References

https://github.com/Eugeny/tabby/security/advisories/GHSA-m937-jm93-pfp6	x-refsource-confirm, exploit, vendor-advisory

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