What is GHSA-jq43-q8mx-r7mq?

GHSA-jq43-q8mx-r7mq is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. SwiftTerm Code Injection vulnerability

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-jq43-q8mx-r7mq cover?

GHSA-jq43-q8mx-r7mq covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2022-23465. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-jq43-q8mx-r7mq?

GHSA-jq43-q8mx-r7mq has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.1, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-jq43-q8mx-r7mq?

GHSA-jq43-q8mx-r7mq affects 1 product, including: swift/github.com/migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm:\u003c 1.2.0.

GHSA-jq43-q8mx-r7mqHighCVSS 7.1

SwiftTerm Code Injection vulnerability

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

July 14, 2023

Last Modified

February 9, 2024

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2022-23465 →

📋 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

🎯 Affected products1

swift/github.com/migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm:< 1.2.0