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CVE-2003-0070

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.8 Published: 2003-03-03 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

VTE, as used by default in gnome-terminal terminal emulator 2.2 and as an option in gnome-terminal 2.0, 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.

Affected Platforms

Gnome Gnome-TerminalNalin Dahyabhai Vte

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References