Arbitrary Command Execution via Window Title Modification in Eterm Terminal Emulator

Arbitrary Command Execution via Window Title Modification in Eterm Terminal Emulator

CVE-2003-0068 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

The Eterm terminal emulator 0.9.1 and earlier 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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