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A vulnerability was found in rxvt up to 2.7.8. It has been classified as critical. This affects an unknown code of the component menuBar. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:
The menuBar feature in rxvt 2.7.8 allows attackers to modify menu options and execute arbitrary commands via a certain character escape sequence that inserts the commands into the menu.
The bug was discovered 02/24/2003. The weakness was disclosed 03/03/2003 by H D Moore (DiGiT) with Digital Defense (Website). The advisory is shared at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2003-0023. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.
The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 7 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 14018 (Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : rxvt (MDKSA-2003:034)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Mandriva Local Security Checks and running in the context l.
Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 4 weeks after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (11416) and Tenable (14018). The entries 20155, 20156, 20158 and 20160 are pretty similar.
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Class: Privileges managementCWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Nessus ID: 14018
Nessus Name: Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : rxvt (MDKSA-2003:034)
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Sources
Advisory: archives.neohapsis.comResearcher: H D Moore (DiGiT)
Organization: Digital Defense
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2003-0023 (🔍)
X-Force: 11416
Vulnerability Center: 15113 - RXVT 2.7.8 MenuBar Feature Allows Remote Execution of Commands and Modification of Menu Options, High
SecurityFocus: 6947 - RXVT Menu Bar Escape Sequence Command Execution Vulnerability
OSVDB: 14556 - Multiple vendor terminal emulator menuBar modification command execution
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Entry
Created: 08/07/2014 18:04Updated: 07/19/2019 09:39
Changes: 08/07/2014 18:04 (69), 07/19/2019 09:39 (5)
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