CVEvulnerability
CVE-2003-0065
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2003-03-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
The uxterm terminal emulator 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
• national university of singapore uxterm 2.3
• national university of singapore uxterm 2.4.1
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q1/0093.html Vendor Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104612710031920&w=2 marc.info
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/11414.php Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6945 www.securityfocus.com
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q1/0093.html Vendor Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104612710031920&w=2 marc.info
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/11414.php Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6945 www.securityfocus.com