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CVE-2003-0063

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
03/03/2003
Last modified:
03/04/2025

Description

The xterm terminal emulator in XFree86 4.2.0 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.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.30 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): Low
Integrity (I): Low
Availability (A): Low

Base Score 3.x
7.30
Severity 3.x
HIGH
Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
7.50
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:xfree86_project:x11r6:4.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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