CVE-2003-0021 describes a vulnerability in Eterm 0.9.1 and earlier, where a "screen dump" feature allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files. This occurs when a malicious character escape sequence is echoed to a user's terminal, such as when viewing a specially crafted file. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is of medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, but only impacting integrity (partial). There is no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.8.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:michael_jennings:eterm:0.8.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.9.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:michael_jennings:eterm:0.9.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.