Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting libinput package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.18% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-LIBINPUT-15924826
  • published7 Apr 2026
  • disclosed1 Apr 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Apr 2026

CVE-2026-35093  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Injection via the luaL_loadfile plugin in configuration directories. An attacker can execute unauthorized code and access sensitive information by placing a specially crafted Lua bytecode file in a system or user configuration directory when Lua plugins are enabled and loaded by the graphical compositor.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1