CVE-2003-0069

Published Mar 18, 2003

Last updated 8 years ago

Overview

Description: The PuTTY terminal emulator 0.53 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.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 7.5
Impact score: 6.4
Exploitability score: 10
Vector string: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:putty:putty:0.53:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "58BA8E70-9491-4D4F-9182-2F48347BF6FC"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References