CVE-2008-1142

Severity: low (CVSS 3.7 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-04-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

rxvt 2.6.4 opens a terminal window on :0 if the DISPLAY environment variable is not set, which might allow local users to hijack X11 connections. NOTE: it was later reported that rxvt-unicode, mrxvt, aterm, multi-aterm, and wterm are also affected. NOTE: realistic attack scenarios require that the victim enters a command on the wrong machine.

Affected products

Aterm: through 1.0.0; 0.1.0, 0.1.1, 0.2.0, 0.3.0, 0.3.1, 0.3.2 (+11)
Eterm: through 0.9.3; 0.9.2
Mrxvt: through 0.5.2; 0.4.2
Multi-Aterm: through 0.2; 0.0.1, 0.0.3, 0.0.4, 0.0.5, 0.1
Rxvt: through 2.7.9; 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.7.5, 2.7.6 (+2)
Rxvt-Unicode: through 9.01; 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 (+71)
Wterm: through 6.2.8a2; 6.2.5, 6.2.6

References

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