Is CVE-2026-25996 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2026-25996 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2026-25996?

CVE-2026-25996 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2026-25996?

CVE-2026-25996 has an EPSS score of 0.56% (43th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

How do I fix CVE-2026-25996?

Upgrade inspektor gadget to 0.49.1 or later.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2026-25996

CRITICAL

9.8

CVSS v3

NVD

Description

Inspektor Gadget is a set of tools and framework for data collection and system inspection on Kubernetes clusters and Linux hosts using eBPF. String fields from eBPF events in columns output mode are rendered to the terminal without any sanitization of control characters or ANSI escape sequences. Therefore, a maliciously forged – partially or completely – event payload, coming from an observed container, might inject the escape sequences into the terminal of ig operators, with various effects. The columns output mode is the default when running ig run interactively.

CWE-150

How to fix

Remediation Available

inspektor gadgetNVD

Affected:< 0.49.1Fixed in:0.49.1CVE-2026-25996derived from NVD

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Remediation is compiled from vendor and distribution security advisories. Always confirm against the linked source for your exact version and platform.

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

0.56%probability of exploitation in 30 days

43rdpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 43% of all known CVEs.

References

Patch1

github.com

Exploit1

github.com

Release Notes1

github.com

Related Vulnerabilities

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CVE-2021-25310	High	8.8	4.6%	-	-
CVE-2020-6932	Critical	10.0	3.6%	-	-
CVE-2024-28085	Low	3.3	2.2%	-	Fix
CVE-2022-30123	Critical	10.0	1.8%	-	Fix

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2026-03-16.