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CRLF injection vulnerability in xterm allows user...

High severity Unreviewed Published May 1, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jul 27, 2023

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in xterm allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands via LF (aka \n) characters surrounding a command name within a Device Control Request Status String (DECRQSS) escape sequence in a text file, a related issue to CVE-2003-0063 and CVE-2003-0071.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 2, 2009
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 1, 2022
Last updated Jul 27, 2023

Severity

High

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

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(92nd percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2008-2383

GHSA ID

GHSA-94vw-2f3v-j88m

Source code

No known source code

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