A vulnerability was found in Terminal Emulator up to 2.31.0 on jQuery and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown function of the component URL Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-80. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages. Impacted is integrity.

The weakness was published 12/30/2021 as GHSA-x9r5-jxvq-4387. It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2021-43862 since 11/16/2021. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059.007 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 2.31.1 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at github.com. Applying the patch 77eb044d0896e990d48a9157f0bc6648f81a84b5 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

Similar entries are available at VDB-276134, VDB-276372, VDB-276409 and VDB-276433.

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• Terminal Emulator

Version

• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3
• 2.4
• 2.5
• 2.6
• 2.7
• 2.8
• 2.9
• 2.10
• 2.11
• 2.12
• 2.13
• 2.14
• 2.15
• 2.16
• 2.17
• 2.18
• 2.19
• 2.20
• 2.21
• 2.22
• 2.23
• 2.24
• 2.25
• 2.26
• 2.27
• 2.28
• 2.29
• 2.30
• 2.31

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• open-source

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