What is CVE-2024-45301?

CVE-2024-45301 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mintty, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2025-11-12.

How severe is CVE-2024-45301?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Improper input validation in Mintty

CVE-2024-45301

Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin, MSYS, and WSL. In versions 2.3.6 through 3.7.4, several escape sequences can cause the mintty process to access a file in a specific path. It is triggered by simply printing them out on bash. An at…

Vulnerability class: Drupalgeddon 2 (CVE-2018-7600)

EPSS: 0.002 (15.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N.

Affected products

Mintty — versions >= 2.3.6, < 3.7.5

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-45301?: CVE-2024-45301 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mintty, classified under Improper Input Validation. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2025-11-12.
How severe is CVE-2024-45301?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.