CVE-2022-45063 Invisible-Island — Exploit & Vulnerability Details CRITICAL

Parameter	Value
CVSS	9.8 (CRITICAL)
Affected Versions	before 375
Fixed In	375
Type	CWE-77 (Command Injection)
Vendor	Invisible-Island
Public PoC	No

xterm before 375 allows code execution via font ops, e.g., because an OSC 50 response may have Ctrl-g and therefore lead to command execution within the vi line-editing mode of Zsh. NOTE: font ops are not allowed in the xterm default configurations of some Linux distributions.

Attack Parameters

Attack Vector

Network

Can be exploited remotely

Attack Complexity

Low

Easy to exploit

Privileges Required

None

No privileges needed

User Interaction

None

No user interaction needed

Impact Assessment

Confidentiality

High

Complete data leak

Integrity

High

Complete data modification

Availability

High

Complete denial of service

CVSS Vector v3.1

Weakness Type (CWE)

CWE-77 Command Injection

Vulnerable Products 4

Configuration	From (including)	Up to (excluding)
Invisible-Island Xterm cpe:2.3:a:invisible-island:xterm::::::::	—	`375`
Fedoraproject Fedora cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:::::::*	—	—
Fedoraproject Fedora cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:::::::*	—	—
Fedoraproject Fedora cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:::::::*	—	—