Report: CVE-2026-21439 - badkeys vulnerable to ASCII control character injection on console via malformed...

Report: CVE-2026-21439 - badkeys vulnerable to ASCII control character injection on console via malformed...

CVE ID : CVE-2026-21439 Published : Jan. 6, 2026, 12:15 a.m. | 59 minutes ago Description : 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: 2.0 | LOW Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more...

CVE Details

Severity
LOW
Published
Jan. 6, 2026

Source: Telegram CVE Monitor