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