CVE-2008-5076: Htop

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

htop 0.7 writes process names to a terminal without sanitizing non-printable characters, which might allow local users to hide processes, modify arbitrary files, or have unspecified other impact via a process name with "crazy control strings."

Affected products

• Htop Htop: version 0.7 only

Published 2008-11-14. Last modified 2026-06-16.