National University Of Singapore uxterm 2.3/2.4.1 Windows Title privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in National University Of Singapore uxterm 2.3/2.4.1. Affected is an unknown function of the component Windows Title Handler. Such manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2003-0065. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in National University Of Singapore uxterm 2.3/2.4.1 (Windowing System Software). Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality 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. CVE summarizes:

The uxterm terminal emulator 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 disclosed 03/03/2003 by H D Moore (DiGiT) with Digital Defense (Website). The advisory is available at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2003-0065. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

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 SecurityFocus (BID 6945†). The entries VDB-20155, VDB-20156, VDB-20157 and VDB-20158 are pretty similar. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Remote: Yes

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Timelineinfo

02/24/2003 🔍
03/03/2003 +7 days 🔍
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08/07/2014 +4175 days 🔍
06/13/2018 +1406 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

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

CVE: CVE-2003-0065 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2003-0065
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-20162
X-Force: 11414 - Multiple vendor terminal emulator window title command execution
SecurityFocus: 6945 - UXTerm Window Title Reporting Escape Sequence Command Execution Vulnerability

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Entryinfo

Created: 08/07/2014 18:05
Updated: 06/13/2018 09:18
Changes: 08/07/2014 18:05 (46), 06/13/2018 09:18 (11)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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