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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in rxvt up to 2.7.8. This affects an unknown part of the component Windows Title Handler. 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 confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:
The rxvt terminal emulator 2.7.8 and earlier 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.
The weakness was presented 03/03/2003 by H D Moore (DiGiT) with Digital Defense (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at marc.info. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2003-0066. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.
The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 13988 (Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : dhcpcd (MDKSA-2003:003)), 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 even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.
The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (11414) and Tenable (13988). See 20160, 20161, 20162 and 20164 for similar entries.
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Nessus ID: 13988
Nessus Name: Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : dhcpcd (MDKSA-2003:003)
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Sources
Advisory: marc.infoResearcher: H D Moore (DiGiT)
Organization: Digital Defense
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2003-0066 (🔍)
X-Force: 11414
Vulnerability Center: 15114 - RXVT 2.7.8 and earlier Remote Arbitrary Command Execution, Medium
SecurityFocus: 6953 - RXVT Window Title Reporting Escape Sequence Command Execution Vulnerability
OSVDB: 60456 - RXVT - Window Title Reporting Escape Sequence - Command Execution Issue
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Entry
Created: 08/07/2014 18:06Updated: 07/19/2019 09:42
Changes: 08/07/2014 18:06 (66), 07/19/2019 09:42 (4)
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