CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-0063

7.3 HIGH Published 2003-03-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2003-03-03
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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.

Affected configurations

• xfree86 project x11r6 4.0 • xfree86 project x11r6 4.0.1 • xfree86 project x11r6 4.0.3 • xfree86 project x11r6 4.1.0 • xfree86 project x11r6 4.2.0 • xfree86 project x11r6 4.2.1

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-150 Improper Neutralization of Escape, Meta, or Control Sequences weakness

References