CVE-2003-0063
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.3 High
- Published
- Sep 1, 2004
- Updated
- Oct 29, 2024
- Reserved
- Feb 4, 2003
Description
The xterm terminal emulator in XFree86 4.2.0 and earlier allows attackers to modify the window title via a certain character escape sequence and then insert it back to the command line in the user's terminal, e.g. when the user views a file containing the malicious sequence, which could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.3 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
|
References
- DSA-380vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2003:067vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2003:066vendor-advisory
- 20030224 Terminal Emulator Security Issuesmailing-list
- RHSA-2003:064vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2003:065vendor-advisory
- 6940vdb-entry
- terminal-emulator-window-title(11414)vdb-entry
- 20030224 Terminal Emulator Security Issuesmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20240615 iTerm2 3.5.x title reporting bugmailing-list
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