GHSA-jq43-q8mx-r7mq SwiftTerm Code Injection vulnerability

• SwiftURL github.com/migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm: < 1.2.0 → fixed in 1.2.0

Impact Attacker could 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. Credit These bugs were found and disclosed by David Leadbeater (@dgl at Github.com) Patches Fixed in version ce596e0dc8cdb288bc7ed5c6a59011ee3a8dc171 Workarounds There are no workarounds available References Similar exploits to this existed in the past, for terminal emulators: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2003-0063 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2383 Additional background and information is also available: https://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104612710031920&w=2 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510030