CVE-2008-2383

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-01-02 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in xterm allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands via LF (aka \n) characters surrounding a command name within a Device Control Request Status String (DECRQSS) escape sequence in a text file, a related issue to CVE-2003-0063 and CVE-2003-0071.

Affected products

Invisible-Island Xterm: _nil_

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=510030
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00004.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00000.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/33318
http://secunia.com/advisories/33388
http://secunia.com/advisories/33397
http://secunia.com/advisories/33418
http://secunia.com/advisories/33419
http://secunia.com/advisories/33568
http://secunia.com/advisories/33820
http://secunia.com/advisories/35074

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