Invisible-island xterm code injection

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in Invisible-island xterm and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component xterm. Performing a manipulation results in code injection. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2008-2383. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, was found in Invisible-island xterm (Windowing System Software) (the affected version unknown). This affects an unknown part of the component xterm. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-94. The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

CRLF injection vulnerability in xterm allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands via LF (aka \n) characters surrounding a command name within a Device Control Request Status String (DECRQSS) escape sequence in a text file, a related issue to CVE-2003-0063 and CVE-2003-0071.

The weakness was released 01/02/2009 by Paul Szabo (Website). The advisory is shared at us-cert.gov. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2008-2383. 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. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 02/03/2025). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1059 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 67791 (Oracle Linux 3 / 4 / 5 : xterm (ELSA-2009-0018)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Oracle Linux Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 165646 (SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update (SUSE-SR:2009:002)).

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 (47655), Tenable (67791), SecurityFocus (BID 33060†), Secunia (SA33820†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1021522†). Entries connected to this vulnerability are available at VDB-23858, VDB-30376, VDB-36551 and VDB-39487. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Code injection
CWE: CWE-94 / CWE-74 / CWE-707
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Nessus ID: 67791
Nessus Name: Oracle Linux 3 / 4 / 5 : xterm (ELSA-2009-0018)
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OpenVAS ID: 63098
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 1694-1 (xterm)
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05/21/2008 🔍
12/28/2008 +221 days 🔍
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01/02/2009 +5 days 🔍
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01/12/2009 +10 days 🔍
07/12/2013 +1642 days 🔍
03/17/2015 +613 days 🔍
02/03/2025 +3610 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: us-cert.gov
Researcher: Paul Szabo
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2008-2383 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2008-2383
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-45741

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X-Force: 47655
SecurityFocus: 33060 - xterm DECRQSS Remote Command Execution Vulnerability
Secunia: 33820
SecurityTracker: 1021522
Vulnerability Center: 20443 - X.org Xterm Device Control Request Status String Remote CRLF Injection Vulnerability, Medium

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Created: 03/17/2015 16:11
Updated: 02/03/2025 00:45
Changes: 03/17/2015 16:11 (62), 05/03/2019 11:17 (9), 08/03/2021 23:00 (3), 08/03/2021 23:15 (1), 12/28/2024 05:29 (15), 02/03/2025 00:45 (1)
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