CVE-2022-23465 HIGH

CVE-2022-23465: SwiftTerm vulnerable to arbitrary command execution

Vendor Migueldeicaza
Product SwiftTerm
Weakness CWE-94 · Code injection
Published December 2, 2022
Last update April 23, 2025

CVSS base score

7.1/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality High
Integrity Low

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

SwiftTerm is a Xterm/VT100 Terminal emulator. Prior to commit a94e6b24d24ce9680ad79884992e1dff8e150a31, an attacker could 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. Version a94e6b24d24ce9680ad79884992e1dff8e150a31 contains a patch for this issue. There are no known workarounds available.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

December 2, 2022 CVE published
April 23, 2025 Record updated