CVE-2008-2383

Published Jan 2, 2009

Last updated a year ago

Overview

Description: CRLF injection vulnerability in xterm allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands via LF (aka \n) characters surrounding a command name within a Device Control Request Status String (DECRQSS) escape sequence in a text file, a related issue to CVE-2003-0063 and CVE-2003-0071.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 9.3
Impact score: 10
Exploitability score: 8.6
Vector string: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: CWE-94

Hype score: Not currently trending

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:invisible-island:xterm:_nil_:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "BE291BE0-5A80-4D58-BF1F-1A7089D2471E"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

References