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A vulnerability was found in Nalin Dahyabhai VTE up to 0.25.1 and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component Windows Title Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The weakness was published 03/03/2003 by H D Moore (DiGiT) with Digital Defense (Website). The advisory is shared at redhat.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2003-0070. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 47742 (Ubuntu 9.04 / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS : vte vulnerability (USN-962-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Ubuntu Local Security Checks.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (11414) and Tenable (47742). Similar entries are available at 20160, 20161, 20162 and 20163.

Productinfo

Vendor

• Nalin Dahyabhai

Name

• VTE

Version

• 0.11.21
• 0.12.2
• 0.14.2
• 0.15.0
• 0.16.14
• 0.17.4
• 0.20.5
• 0.22.5
• 0.24.3
• 0.25.1

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CVSSv4info

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.3

VulDB Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Temp Score: 7.3
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 47742
Nessus Name: Ubuntu 9.04 / 9.10 / 10.04 LTS : vte vulnerability (USN-962-1)
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OpenVAS ID: 831137
OpenVAS Name: Mandriva Update for vte MDVSA-2010:161 (vte)
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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

02/24/2003 🔍
02/25/2003 +1 days 🔍
03/03/2003 +6 days 🔍
03/03/2003 +0 days 🔍
07/16/2010 +2692 days 🔍
12/30/2010 +167 days 🔍
08/07/2014 +1316 days 🔍
06/28/2021 +2517 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: redhat.com
Researcher: H D Moore (DiGiT)
Organization: Digital Defense
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2003-0070 (🔍)
X-Force: 11414
Vulnerability Center: 28900 - VTE in Gnome-Terminal 2.0 and 2.2 Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability, Medium
SecurityFocus: 6948 - Gnome-Terminal Window Title Reporting Escape Sequence Command Execution Vulnerability

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Entryinfo

Created: 08/07/2014 18:06
Updated: 06/28/2021 13:02
Changes: 08/07/2014 18:06 (59), 03/12/2017 17:21 (11), 06/28/2021 13:02 (3)
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