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CVE-2003-0070

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

Description

VTE, as used by default in gnome-terminal terminal emulator 2.2 and as an option in gnome-terminal 2.0, 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 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.80 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

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

Base Score 2.0
6.80
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:nalin_dahyabhai:vte:0.11.21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:nalin_dahyabhai:vte:0.12.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:nalin_dahyabhai:vte:0.14.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:nalin_dahyabhai:vte:0.15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:nalin_dahyabhai:vte:0.16.14:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:nalin_dahyabhai:vte:0.17.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:nalin_dahyabhai:vte:0.20.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:nalin_dahyabhai:vte:0.22.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:nalin_dahyabhai:vte:0.24.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:nalin_dahyabhai:vte:0.25.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gnome-terminal:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gnome-terminal:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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