CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-0066

7.5 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 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

The rxvt terminal emulator 2.7.8 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

• rxvt rxvt 2.6.1 • rxvt rxvt 2.6.2 • rxvt rxvt 2.6.3 • rxvt rxvt 2.6.4 • rxvt rxvt 2.7.5 • rxvt rxvt 2.7.6 • rxvt rxvt 2.7.7 • rxvt rxvt 2.7.8

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