CVE-2003-0063 (GCVE-0-2003-0063)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2004-09-01 04:00
Modified
2024-10-29 14:05
Severity ?
7.3 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The xterm terminal emulator in XFree86 4.2.0 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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