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CVE-2026-91784

UNKNOWN 0.0

Argument Injection leading to arbitrary process termination in gotop

CVSS Score
0.0
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

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.

CWE CWE-88
Vendor cjbassi
Product gotop
Published Oct 2, 2026
Last Updated Oct 2, 2026
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Affected Versions

cjbassi / gotop
3.0.0

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗
cert.pl: https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/10/CVE-2026-91784 github.com: https://github.com/cjbassi/gotop

Credits

Michał Majchrowicz (AFINE Team) Marcin Wyczechowski (AFINE Team)