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GHSA-JQ43-Q8MX-R7MQ

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2023-07-14 21:58 – Updated: 2024-02-09 00:34

Summary

SwiftTerm Code Injection vulnerability

Details

Impact

Attacker could 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.

Credit

These bugs were found and disclosed by David Leadbeater dgl@dgl.cx (@dgl at Github.com)

Patches

Fixed in version ce596e0dc8cdb288bc7ed5c6a59011ee3a8dc171

Workarounds

There are no workarounds available

References

Similar exploits to this existed in the past, for terminal emulators:

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2003-0063 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2383

Additional background and information is also available:

https://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104612710031920&w=2 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510030

Severity

7.1 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

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  "modified": "2024-02-09T00:34:39Z",
  "published": "2023-07-14T21:58:43Z",
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CVE-2022-23465 (GCVE-0-2022-23465)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-02 22:53 – Updated: 2025-04-23 16:32

Title

SwiftTerm vulnerable to arbitrary command execution

Summary

SwiftTerm is a Xterm/VT100 Terminal emulator. Prior to commit a94e6b24d24ce9680ad79884992e1dff8e150a31, an attacker could 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. Version a94e6b24d24ce9680ad79884992e1dff8e150a31 contains a patch for this issue. There are no known workarounds available.

Severity

7.1 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-04-23 13:53 UTC

CWE

CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Assigner

GitHub_M mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm/securi…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm/commit…	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
migueldeicaza	SwiftTerm	Affected: < a94e6b24d24ce9680ad79884992e1dff8e150a31

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CVE-2022-23465 (GCVE-0-2022-23465)

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