CVE-2026-21439 (GCVE-0-2026-21439)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-05 23:51 – Updated: 2026-01-06 19:01
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
badkeys vulnerable to ASCII control character injection on console via malformed input
Summary
badkeys is a tool and library for checking cryptographic public keys for known vulnerabilities. In versions 0.0.15 and below, an attacker may inject content with ASCII control characters like vertical tabs, ANSI escape sequences, etc., that can create misleading output of the badkeys command-line tool. This impacts scanning DKIM keys (both --dkim and --dkim-dns), SSH keys (--ssh-lines mode), and filenames in various modes. This issue is fixed in version 0.0.16.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-01-06 14:24 UTC
CWE
- CWE-150 - Improper Neutralization of Escape, Meta, or Control Sequences
Assigner
References
4 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/badkeys/badkeys/security/advis… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/badkeys/badkeys/issues/40 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/badkeys/badkeys/commit/635a2f3… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://github.com/badkeys/badkeys/commit/de631f6… | x_refsource_MISC |
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