CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-0070

6.8 MEDIUM 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])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

VTE, as used by default in gnome-terminal terminal emulator 2.2 and as an option in gnome-terminal 2.0, 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

• nalin dahyabhai vte 0.11.21 • nalin dahyabhai vte 0.12.2 • nalin dahyabhai vte 0.14.2 • nalin dahyabhai vte 0.15.0 • nalin dahyabhai vte 0.16.14 • nalin dahyabhai vte 0.17.4 • nalin dahyabhai vte 0.20.5 • nalin dahyabhai vte 0.22.5 • nalin dahyabhai vte 0.24.3 • nalin dahyabhai vte 0.25.1 • gnome gnome-terminal 2.0 • gnome gnome-terminal 2.2

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