CVE-2019-9535

Summary

CVECVE-2019-9535
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-10-09 20:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:13:00 UTC
DescriptionA vulnerability exists in the way that iTerm2 integrates with tmux's control mode, which may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands by providing malicious output to the terminal. This affects versions of iTerm2 up to and including 3.3.5. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on their victim's computer by providing malicious output to the terminal. It could be exploited using command-line utilities that print attacker-controlled content.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-74

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Iterm2 Iterm2 All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
VU#763073 - iTerm2 with tmux integration is vulnerable to remote command execution CERT-VN kb.cert.org Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource
Google Groups groups.google.com
Google Groups CONFIRM groups.google.com Patch, Third Party Advisory
Critical Security Issue identified in iTerm2 as part of Mozilla Open Source Audit | Mozilla Security Blog MISC blog.mozilla.org Exploit, Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Thanks to Stefan Grönke and Fabian Freyer of Radically Open Security for finding this vulnerability, the Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) project for supporting the audit, and George Nachman of iTerm2 for developing the fix, and all parties for coordinating this vulnerability.

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