CVE-2026-91784: Argument Injection leading to arbitrary process termination in gotop

Published Oct 2, 2026
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Updated

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.

Affected Software

1 affected component
cjbassi gotop=3.0.0

Event History

Oct 2, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·08:38 AM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·08:38 AM
DescriptionWeakness
Data Sourced
via NVD·09:16 AM
DescriptionSeverityWeakness

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