migueldeicaza/swiftterm · Security
SwiftTerm Code Injection vulnerability
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-jq43-q8mx-r7mq
- CVE ID
- CVE-2022-23465
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 7.1 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
Description
Impact
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.
Credit
These bugs were found and disclosed by David Leadbeater [email protected] (@dgl at Github.com)
Patches
Fixed in version ce596e0dc8cdb288bc7ed5c6a59011ee3a8dc171
Workarounds
There are no workarounds available
References
Similar exploits to this existed in the past, for terminal emulators:
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2003-0063 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2383
Additional background and information is also available:
https://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104612710031920&w=2 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510030
CWEs
- CWE-94 · Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')