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.
History

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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First Time appeared Cjbassi
Cjbassi gotop
Vendors & Products Cjbassi
Cjbassi gotop

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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
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: CERT-PL

Published: 2026-10-02T08:38:42.744Z

Updated: 2026-10-02T17:42:17.586Z

Reserved: 2026-09-15T06:26:41.028Z

Link: CVE-2026-91784

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-10-02T17:42:13.901Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-10-02T09:16:45.117

Modified: 2026-10-02T18:54:07.277

Link: CVE-2026-91784

cve-icon Redhat

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