CVE-2022-4170 (GCVE-0-2022-4170)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-12-09 00:00
Modified
2025-04-14 18:11
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Summary
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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a rxvt-unicode Version: rxvt-unicode 9.30
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