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.
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.
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | Argument Injection leading to arbitrary process termination in gotop | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-88 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: CERT-PL
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Updated: 2026-10-02T08:42:17.946Z
Reserved: 2026-09-15T06:26:41.028Z
Link: CVE-2026-91784
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-10-02T09:16:45.117
Modified: 2026-10-02T09:16:45.117
Link: CVE-2026-91784
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Updated: 2026-10-02T10:30:07Z
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