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CVE-2026-21439

Published: Jan 5, 2026

Modified: Jan 6, 2026

PUBLISHED

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
badkeys	badkeys	affected `< 0.0.16`

Weaknesses (CWE)

References

https://github.com/badkeys/badkeys/security/advisories/GHSA-wjpc-4f29-83h3

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://github.com/badkeys/badkeys/issues/40

x_refsource_MISC

https://github.com/badkeys/badkeys/commit/635a2f3b1b50a895d8b09ec8629efc06189f349a

x_refsource_MISC

https://github.com/badkeys/badkeys/commit/de631f69f040974bb5fb442cdab9a1d904c64087

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