CVE-2022-4170

State: Published
Severity: 9.8 Critical
Published: Dec 9, 2022
Updated: Apr 14, 2025
Reserved: Nov 28, 2022

Description

The rxvt-unicode package is vulnerable to a remote code execution, in the Perl background extension, when an attacker can control the data written to the user's terminal and certain options are set.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.8 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-74

Affected Products

Product	Versions
rxvt-unicoden/a	rxvt-unicode 9.30Affected

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151597
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/12/05/1
GLSA-202310-20vendor-advisory

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