GHSA-jq43-q8mx-r7mq

SwiftTerm Code Injection vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2022-23465

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
SwiftURL	github.com/migueldeicaza/SwiftTerm	< 1.2.0	1.2.0

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

### Impact 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. ### Credit These bugs were found and disclosed by David Leadbeater <[email protected]> (@dgl at Github.com) ### Patches Fixed in version ce596e0dc8cdb288bc7ed5c6a59011ee3a8dc171 ### Workarounds There are no workarounds available ### References Similar exploits to this existed in the past, for terminal emulators: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2003-0063 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2383 Additional background and information is also available: https://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104612710031920&w=2 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510030

References

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