CVE-2026-21439

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.

Risk Information

Base Score

5.3

MODERATE

Vector

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

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.014

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2026-21439 are fixed in Python-badkeys 0.0.16	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2026-21439 are fixed in Python-badkeys for linux 0.0.16	Linux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234