CVE-2003-0068
EPSS 0.67%eterm - missing input sanitising
Published: 3/3/2003Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
The Eterm terminal emulator 0.9.1 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.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/etermfrom 0, < 0.9.2-6
- Debian/etermfrom 0, < 0.9.2-0pre2002042903.3