CVE-2003-0063

HighCVSS 7.3/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

The xterm terminal emulator in XFree86 4.2.0 and earlier allows attackers to modify the window title via a certain character escape sequence and then insert it back to the command line in the user's terminal, e.g. when the user views a file containing the malicious sequence, which could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.3/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Mar 3, 2003
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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