CVE-2008-2383 describes a critical CRLF injection vulnerability in xterm, allowing user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands. This flaw, related to previous CVEs, leverages newline characters within a Device Control Request Status String escape sequence in a text file. With a CVSS score of 9.3, it poses a severe risk due to its network-based attack vector, medium complexity, and complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog and lacking public exploit code in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness despite no confirmed active exploitation.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
_nil_CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:invisible-island:xterm:_nil_:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.