Library popt has vulnerability CVE-2026-18739
Author: github-actions[bot]Created Sep 11, 2026Updated Sep 12, 2026
Labelslibrariessecuritycveseverity-low
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-18739
A flaw was found in popt, a command-line option parsing library. An off-by-one error in the poptStuffArgs function, when repeatedly called by a host application or through deep alias nesting, can lead to corruption of internal program data. This corruption could potentially enable a local attacker to execute arbitrary code if the host application then unsafely processes the altered data.
NOTE: This is an automated issue created based on the library metadata. Osquery may or may not be affected.
Source: osquery/osquery