Cyber Resilience

CVE-2026-45037

High

Published: 15 May 2026

Published
15 May 2026
Modified
19 May 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0005 17.1th percentile
Risk Priority 14 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2026-45037 is a high-severity Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs (CWE-184) vulnerability in Tabby Tabby. Its CVSS base score is 7.1 (High).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploitation for Client Execution (T1203); ranked at the 17.1th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Tabby (formerly Terminus) is a highly configurable terminal emulator. Prior to 1.0.232, Tabby's terminal linkifier passes any detected URI directly to the operating system's protocol handler without validating the protocol scheme. This allows a malicious SSH or Telnet server to…

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send crafted terminal output containing dangerous protocol URIs which Tabby renders as clickable links, triggering arbitrary OS protocol handlers on the victim's machine. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.0.232.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution Execution
Adversaries may exploit software vulnerabilities in client applications to execute code.
Why these techniques?

Vulnerability in terminal URI handling allows malicious server output to trigger arbitrary protocol handlers, directly enabling client-side code execution via crafted links.

Confidence: MEDIUM · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v18.1

CVEs Like This One

CVE-2026-32017Shared CWE-184
CVE-2026-41206Shared CWE-184
CVE-2020-36912Shared CWE-601
CVE-2026-34415Shared CWE-184
CVE-2026-0508Shared CWE-601
CVE-2026-29067Shared CWE-601
CVE-2026-40961Shared CWE-601
CVE-2024-51321Shared CWE-601
CVE-2025-24381Shared CWE-601
CVE-2026-42435Shared CWE-184

Affected Assets

tabby
tabby
≤ 1.0.232

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-601

Security awareness includes verifying URLs and avoiding untrusted redirects that lead to malicious sites.

addresses: CWE-601

Validates redirect targets and URLs to ensure they conform to allowed destinations.

addresses: CWE-184

Spam filters rely on evolving blacklists, signatures, and heuristics of disallowed message patterns; keeping them updated per the control directly mitigates incomplete disallowed-input lists.

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