Powerlevel10k before 1.20.19 contains an insecure temporary directory vulnerability in the bundled gitstatus/install script that reuses…
CVE-2026-122137
Powerlevel10k before 1.20.19 contains an insecure temporary directory vulnerability in the bundled gitstatus/install script that reuses attacker-creatable directories when mktemp fails. Local attackers can pre-create the predictable gitstatus-install.tmp directory to replace the extracted gitstatusd binary, which then executes with the victim's privileges.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 5.4 (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 · gitstatus · powerlevel10k
- Assigner
- VulnCheck
CVSS vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/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/gitstatus/commit/5433ecbb9a572d6c92be9feb33642395fccc782b
- https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k/commit/98bd39fd335e3f9f560e48e5c1957cb2a6a212c4
- https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k/blob/v1.20.0/gitstatus/install#L255-L256
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/powerlevel10k-before-1.20.19-insecure-temporary-directory-via-gitstatus-installer
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-122137
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