CVE-2026-13745

7.7 highEPSS 0.7%

High (7.7). EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerability in the Gemini CLI prior to version 0.39.1 allows attackers to achieve arbitrary code execution by tricking a victim into starting the CLI within an untrusted directory. The vulnerability is triggered via untrusted .env files overriding GEMINI_CLI_HOME to load malicious configuration files and bypass folder trust prompts.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

7.7 high

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/U:Amber

EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 51% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWEs: CWE-15, CWE-829
Published: 2026-09-10
Modified: 2026-09-23
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/releases/tag/v0.39.1
https://www.pwned.info/articles/homing-in-on-arbitrary-code-execution-within-gemini-cli/
https://www.redguard.ch/blog/2026/06/03/advisory-google-gemini-cli/

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