CVE-2003-0069

Description

The PuTTY terminal emulator 0.53 allows attackers to modify the window title via a certain character escape sequence and then insert it back to the command line in the users terminal, e.g. when the user views a file containing the malicious sequence, which could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands.

Risk Information

Base Score
8.4
MODERATE
Vector
AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.347

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
update putty 0.53 to latest versionWindows
update putty 0.53 (x64) to latest versionWindows

Patch Details

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Patch IDPatch Description
PATCH-337645PuTTY (0.81)
PATCH-337646PuTTY (x64) (0.81)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234