Vulnerability CVE-2003-0070


Published: 2003-03-03   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
VTE, as used by default in gnome-terminal terminal emulator 2.2 and as an option in gnome-terminal 2.0, 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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
6.8/10
6.4/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Nalin dahyabhai -> VTE 
Gnome -> Gnome-terminal 

 References:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/vulnwatch/2003-q1/0093.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104612710031920&w=2
http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2003/Mar/0010.html
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/11414.php
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-053.html

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