CVE-2022-46663

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

In GNU Less before 609, crafted data can result in "less -R" not filtering ANSI escape sequences sent to the terminal.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/news.609.htmlBroken Link
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/07/7Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/gwsw/less/commit/a78e1351113cef564d790a730d657a321624d79cPatch
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LR7AUWB34JD4PCW3HHASBEDGGHFWPAQP/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-11Third Party Advisory
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/07/7Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/news.609.htmlBroken Link
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/07/7Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/gwsw/less/commit/a78e1351113cef564d790a730d657a321624d79cPatch
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LR7AUWB34JD4PCW3HHASBEDGGHFWPAQP/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-11Third Party Advisory
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/02/07/7Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Feb 7, 2023
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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