CVE-2003-0068

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Summary

CVECVE-2003-0068
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2003-03-03 05:00:00 UTC
Updated2016-10-18 02:29:00 UTC
DescriptionThe Eterm terminal emulator 0.9.1 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Michael Jennings Eterm 0.8.10 All All All
Application Michael Jennings Eterm 0.9.1 All All All
Application Michael Jennings Eterm 0.8.10 All All All
Application Michael Jennings Eterm 0.9.1 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
ETerm Window Title Reporting Escape Sequence Command Execution Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
Mandrakesoft Security Advisories MANDRAKE www.mandrakesoft.com
ISS X-Force Database: terminal-emulator-window-title (11414): Multiple vendor terminal emulator window title command execution XF www.iss.net Vendor Advisory
20030224 Terminal Emulator Security Issues VULNWATCH archives.neohapsis.com Vendor Advisory
20030224 Terminal Emulator Security Issues BUGTRAQ marc.info
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-496-1 eterm DEBIAN www.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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