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CVE-2003-0063
The xterm terminal emulator in XFree86 4.2.0 and earlier allows attackers to modify the window title via a certain character escape…
High7.3EPSS 3.4%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
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- mitre
Description
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.4% · top 11% of all CVEs (2 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.3.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (10)
- DSA-380 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- RHSA-2003:067 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- RHSA-2003:066 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- 20030224 Terminal Emulator Security Issues (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- RHSA-2003:064 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- RHSA-2003:065 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- 6940 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_transferred
- terminal-emulator-window-title(11414) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_transferred
- 20030224 Terminal Emulator Security Issues (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20240615 iTerm2 3.5.x title reporting bug (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
Record last updated .