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CVE-2000-0476
xterm, Eterm, and rxvt allow an attacker to cause a denial of service by embedding certain escape characters which force the window to be…
Medium5.0EPSS 2.5%
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Description
xterm, Eterm, and rxvt allow an attacker to cause a denial of service by embedding certain escape characters which force the window to be resized.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (5)
- 20000601 Re: [rootshell.com] Xterm DoS Attack (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- 20000601 [rootshell.com] Xterm DoS Attack (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- 1298 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20240609 vte 0.76.3 released with fix for CVE-2024-37535 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20240609 Re: vte 0.76.3 released with fix for CVE-2024-37535 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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