Powerlevel10k before 1.20.19 contains a symlink following vulnerability in p9kdumpinstantprompt that allows local attackers to overwrite…
CVE-2026-122136
Powerlevel10k before 1.20.19 contains a symlink following vulnerability in p9kdumpinstantprompt that allows local attackers to overwrite victim-writable files via a predictable temporary path. Attackers can pre-plant symlinks at p10k-instant-prompt-output- - in TMPDIR, guessing the victim's shell PID, so shell startup truncates and overwrites targeted files.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 4.1 (v4.0)
- Severity
- Medium
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 4 November 2026
- Last updated
- 4 November 2026
- Affected
- romkatv · powerlevel10k
- Assigner
- VulnCheck
CVSS vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
At the source
References
- https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k/issues/2972
- https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k
- https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k/commit/7ddd1b2715c3844275214347a3572ac1fdd6dc39
- https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k/blob/v1.20.0/internal/p10k.zsh#L6445-L6452
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/powerlevel10k-before-1.20.19-symlink-following-via-instant-prompt-temporary-file
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-122136
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