Vulnerability in GNOME Gnome-Terminal
CVE-2003-0070
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.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 6.8 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.021 (80.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 81st percentile — 80.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.021 · newest: 0.021 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- GNOME Gnome-Terminal — versions 2.0, 2.2
- Nalin Dahyabhai Vte — versions 0.11.21, 0.12.2, 0.14.2
References
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-053.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.iss.net/security_center/static/11414.php (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q1/0093.html (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list)
- seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2003/Mar/0010.html (vendor-advisory)