fkie_cve-2003-0066
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2003-03-03 05:00
Modified
2025-04-03 01:03
Severity ?
Summary
The rxvt terminal emulator 2.7.8 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.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
rxvt rxvt 2.6.1
rxvt rxvt 2.6.2
rxvt rxvt 2.6.3
rxvt rxvt 2.6.4
rxvt rxvt 2.7.5
rxvt rxvt 2.7.6
rxvt rxvt 2.7.7
rxvt rxvt 2.7.8



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