CVE-2022-4170 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Fedoraproject	Extra Packages For Enterprise Linux Fedora
Rxvt-unicode Project	Rxvt-unicode

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:rxvt-unicode_project:rxvt-unicode:9.25:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:rxvt-unicode_project:rxvt-unicode:9.26:::::::*

Configuration 2 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:fedoraproject:extra_packages_for_enterprise_linux:8.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:::::::*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151597
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-20
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/12/05/1

History

Mon, 14 Apr 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: fedora

Published: 2022-12-09T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-14T18:11:13.443Z

Reserved: 2022-11-28T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-4170

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:34:49.319Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-12-09T18:15:20.327

Modified: 2025-04-14T18:15:25.293

Link: CVE-2022-4170

Redhat

No data.

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