CVE-2022-4170

CRITICAL

9.8

Description

The rxvt-unicode package is vulnerable to a remote code execution, in the Perl background extension, when an attacker can control the data written to the user's terminal and certain options are set.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score9.8

SeverityCRITICAL

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

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published12/9/2022

Last Modified4/14/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

fedoraproject:extra_packages_for_enterprise_linuxfedoraproject:fedorarxvt-unicode_project:rxvt-unicode

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-74

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151597(patrick@puiterwijk.org)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-20(patrick@puiterwijk.org)

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/12/05/1(patrick@puiterwijk.org)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151597(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-20(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/12/05/1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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