Vulnerability in Putty
CVE-2003-0069
The PuTTY terminal emulator 0.53 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.
EPSS: 0.022 (80.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Putty — versions 0.53
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, x_refsource_VULNWATCH)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)