CVE-2022-4170 (GCVE-0-2022-4170)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-12-09 00:00 – Updated: 2025-04-14 18:11
VLAI
Summary
The rxvt-unicode package is vulnerable to a remote code execution, in the Perl background extension, when an attacker can control the data written to the user's terminal and certain options are set.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a rxvt-unicode Affected: rxvt-unicode 9.30
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