CVEvulnerability
CVE-2022-4170
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-12-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-74
Description
The rxvt-unicode package is vulnerable to a remote code execution, in the Perl background extension, when an attacker can control the data written to the user's terminal and certain options are set.
Affected configurations
• rxvt-unicode project rxvt-unicode 9.25
• rxvt-unicode project rxvt-unicode 9.26
• fedoraproject extra packages for enterprise linux 8.0
• fedoraproject fedora 37
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component weakness
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151597 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-20 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/12/05/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151597 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-20 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/12/05/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory