Vulnerability · CVE-2026-35197
dye is a portable and respectful color library for shell scripts.
Published Apr 6, 2026 · catalog updated Jul 24, 2026 · dye is a portable
Check if you run it
No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2026-35197. EPSS is 0.42%. Act only if a listed version of dye is a portable is installed.
Gaps on this record
- The stored product name is a package slug. The name on this page is taken from the title (dye is a portable).
- No vendor fix or required action is stored. Compare the linked advisory before you change production.
- Severity
- Critical9.8
- Known exploitation
- Not in CISA/VulnCheck KEV
- EPSS
- 0.42%
- Remediation
- Advisory link
- Affected products
- cpe mattiebee/dye
dye is a portable and respectful color library for shell scripts. Prior to 1.1.1, certain dye template expressions would result in execution of arbitrary code. This issue was discovered and fixed by dye's author, and is not known to be exploited. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.1.1.
Are you affected?
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- cpe mattiebee/dye1.1.0
How to fix CVE-2026-35197
Recommended remediation
A patch or advisory reference is linked. Open the original publisher for availability by product version.
Official advisories
What to do
Three questions, each answered from this record only. Confirm the vendor advisory before you patch.
Should you patch?
No confirmed exploitation is on record for CVE-2026-35197. EPSS is 0.42%. Act only if a listed version of dye is a portable is installed.
Which versions are affected?
Compare what you have installed with 1.1.0. Compare the installed version with the linked vendor advisory before you change production.
What should an analyst verify?
CWE-94: Code Injection. EPSS 0.42%. There is no CISA KEV listing. No Exploit-DB or Metasploit reference is linked. Use the source links for the original advisory.
Code
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Timeline
Detection, updates, and resolution for this record.
Apr 6, 2026 · NIST NVD
Detected
dye is a portable and respectful color library for shell scripts. Prior to 1.1.1, certain dye template expressions would result in execution of arbitrary code. This issue was discovered and fixed by dye's author, and is not known to be exploited. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.1.1.
Jul 24, 2026 · NIST NVD
Updated
dye is a portable and respectful color library for shell scripts. Prior to 1.1.1, certain dye template expressions would result in execution of arbitrary code. This issue was discovered and fixed by dye's author, and is not known to be exploited. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.1.1.
Sources
- CVE.orgVulnerability recordCVE-2026-35197
Official CVE identifier
cve.org - FIRST EPSSExploitation probabilityCVE-2026-35197
30-day exploitation probability 0.4%
first.org - NIST NVDVulnerability recordCVE-2026-35197
dye is a portable and respectful color library for shell scripts. Prior to 1.1.1, certain dye template expressions would result in execution of arbitrary code. This issue was discovered and fixed by dye's author, and is not known to be exploited. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.
nvd.nist.gov
References
Freshness
Last verified in this catalog Oct 18, 2026. Significant claims (KEV, EPSS, CVSS, affected ranges) come from the source rows above — open the original publisher for the authoritative advisory.