Vulnerability · Published Dec 2, 2022 · Assigned by GitHub_M

CVE-2022-23465SwiftTerm vulnerable to arbitrary command execution

High 7.1

In plain English

A high-severity code injection in SwiftTerm from migueldeicaza. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 39% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.1High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 60.8% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

SwiftTerm is a Xterm/VT100 Terminal emulator. Prior to commit a94e6b24d24ce9680ad79884992e1dff8e150a31, an attacker could 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. Version a94e6b24d24ce9680ad79884992e1dff8e150a31 contains a patch for this issue. There are no known workarounds available.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
migueldeicaza	SwiftTerm	< a94e6b24d24ce9680ad79884992e1dff8e150a31

Weakness: CWE-94 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

References

https://github.com/migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm/security/advisories/GHSA-jq43-q8mx-r7mq x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm/commit/a94e6b24d24ce9680ad79884992e1dff8e150a31 x_refsource_MISC