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CVE-2022-46663
In GNU Less before 609, crafted data can result in "less -R" not filtering ANSI escape sequences sent to the terminal.
High7.5EPSS 1.4%
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- Updated
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- mitre
Description
In GNU Less before 609, crafted data can result in "less -R" not filtering ANSI escape sequences sent to the terminal.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 27% of all CVEs (6 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 7.5.
Weakness
- n/a
- CWE-noinfo Not enough information
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (6)
- https://github.com/gwsw/less/commit/a78e1351113cef564d790a730d657a321624d79c (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/news.609.html (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/07/7 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- [oss-security] 20230207 CVE-2022-46663: less -R filtering bypass (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- FEDORA-2023-71442d7613 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- GLSA-202310-11 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_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)
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