Eterm 0.9.4 opens a terminal window on :0 if -display is not specified and the DISPLAY environment variable is not set, which might allow local users to hijack X11 connections. NOTE: realistic attack scenarios require that the victim enters a command on the wrong machine.
Product
debian/eterm vulnerabilities
5 published CVES affecting debian/eterm, from public sources (CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, OSV).
- Total
- 5
- Critical
- 0
- High
- 2
- Medium
- 3
- Low
- 0
- Unscored
- 0
- CISA KEV
- 0
Latest debian/eterm CVEs
Newest publication first
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MediumCVSS 6.9
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MediumCVSS 4.6
Buffer overflow in Eterm 0.9.2 allows local users to gain privileges via a long ETERMPATH environment variable.
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HighCVSS 7.5
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 all...
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MediumCVSS 5.0
The "screen dump" feature in Eterm 0.9.1 and earlier allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a certain character escape sequence when it is echoed to a user's terminal, e.g. when the user views a file containing the malicious sequence.
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HighCVSS 8.8
rxvt-unicode 9.22, rxvt 2.7.10, mrxvt 0.5.4, and Eterm 0.9.7 allow (potentially remote) code execution because of improper handling of certain escape sequences (ESC G Q). A response is terminated by a newline.
Sources: CVE.org, NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, OSV and public exploit-reference metadata. Product matching comes from the published CVE records. A proof-of-concept means public code exists; it is not evidence of exploitation.