CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-9231
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-09-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200
Description
iTerm2 3.x before 3.1.1 allows remote attackers to discover passwords by reading DNS queries. A new (default) feature was added to iTerm2 version 3.0.0 (and unreleased 2.9.x versions such as 2.9.20150717) that resulted in a potential information disclosure. In an attempt to see whether the text under the cursor (or selected text) was a URL, the text would be sent as an unencrypted DNS query. This has the potential to result in passwords and other sensitive information being sent in cleartext without the user being aware.
Affected configurations
• iterm2 iterm2 2.9.20151111
• iterm2 iterm2 2.9.20151229
• iterm2 iterm2 2.9.20160102
• iterm2 iterm2 2.9.20160113
• iterm2 iterm2 2.9.20160206
• iterm2 iterm2 2.9.20160313
• iterm2 iterm2 2.9.20160422
• iterm2 iterm2 2.9.20160426
• iterm2 iterm2 2.9.20160510
• iterm2 iterm2 2.9.20160523
• iterm2 iterm2 3.0.0
• iterm2 iterm2 3.0.1
• iterm2 iterm2 3.0.2
• iterm2 iterm2 3.0.3
• iterm2 iterm2 3.0.4
• iterm2 iterm2 3.0.5
• iterm2 iterm2 3.0.6
• iterm2 iterm2 3.0.7
• iterm2 iterm2 3.0.8
• iterm2 iterm2 3.0.9
• iterm2 iterm2 3.0.10
• iterm2 iterm2 3.0.11
• iterm2 iterm2 3.0.12
• iterm2 iterm2 3.0.13
• iterm2 iterm2 3.0.14
• iterm2 iterm2 3.0.15
• iterm2 iterm2 3.0.20160531
• iterm2 iterm2 3.1.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness
References
- https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/commit/33ccaf61e34ef32ffc9d6b2be5dd218f6bb55f51 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/commit/e4eb1063529deb575b75b396138d41554428d522 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues/3688 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues/5303 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues/6050 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues/6068 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/wikis/dnslookupissue Third Party Advisory
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15286956 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/commit/33ccaf61e34ef32ffc9d6b2be5dd218f6bb55f51 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/commit/e4eb1063529deb575b75b396138d41554428d522 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues/3688 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues/5303 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues/6050 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/issues/6068 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/wikis/dnslookupissue Third Party Advisory
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15286956 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory