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CVE-2022-4170

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.8 Published: 2022-12-09 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Rxvt-Unicode Project Rxvt-UnicodeFedoraproject FedoraFedoraproject Extra Packages For Enterprise Linux

Weakness Type

CWE-74, NVD-CWE-Other

References