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CVE-2024-38395 (GCVE-0-2024-38395)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-06-16 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-02 04:12
VLAI
Summary
In iTerm2 before 3.5.2, the "Terminal may report window title" setting is not honored, and thus remote code execution might occur but "is not trivially exploitable."
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-06-18 14:15 UTC
CWE
  • n/a
  • CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
iterm2 iterm2 Affected: 3.5.2
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