CVE-2022-23465 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting SwiftTerm, an Xterm/VT100 Terminal emulator, prior to commit a94e6b24d24ce9680ad79884992e1dff8e150a31. An attacker could exploit this by using a specially crafted character escape sequence to modify the window title, which could then be re-inserted into the command line to execute arbitrary commands when a user views a malicious file. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and can lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no known active exploitation or public exploit code, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity community.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2022-12-02CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:swiftterm_project:swiftterm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.