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CRITICAL CVSS 3.1
CVE-2022-45063
"Xterm Font Ops Execute Code"
Description

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.

INFO

Published Date :

Nov. 10, 2022, 4:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 21, 2024, 7:28 a.m.

Remotely Exploit :

Yes !

Source :

[email protected]
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2022-45063 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Fedoraproject fedora
1 Invisible-island xterm
: Total Affected Vendor : 2 | Products : 2
CVSS Scores
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System is a standardized framework for assessing the severity of vulnerabilities in software and systems. We collect and displays CVSS scores from various sources for each CVE.
Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 3.1 CRITICAL [email protected]
Solution
This vulnerability allows code execution; update xterm to resolve the issue.
  • Update the affected xterm package to a patched version.
  • Consult vendor guidance for specific patching instructions.
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2022-45063 has a 1 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2022-45063.

URL Resource
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/10/1 Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/10/5 Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/15/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/17/1
https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html Release Notes Vendor Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4TPVNTYFFWNTGZJJQAA4MGGFSTXA4XEA/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5T2JI5JCHPTXX2KJU45H2XAHQSFVEJ2Y/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IVD3I2ZFXGOY6BA2FNS7WPFMPFBDHFWC/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33546415 Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202211-09 Third Party Advisory
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/10/1 Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/10/1 Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/10/5 Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/15/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/17/1
https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html Release Notes Vendor Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4TPVNTYFFWNTGZJJQAA4MGGFSTXA4XEA/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5T2JI5JCHPTXX2KJU45H2XAHQSFVEJ2Y/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IVD3I2ZFXGOY6BA2FNS7WPFMPFBDHFWC/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33546415 Exploit Issue Tracking Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202211-09 Third Party Advisory
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/10/1 Mailing List Patch Third Party Advisory
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2022-45063 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2022-45063 weaknesses.

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

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dgl/houdini-kubectl-poc

A proof of concept Docker image for escaping Kubernetes via terminals

Dockerfile

Updated: 2 months, 3 weeks ago
7 stars 2 fork 2 watcher
Born at : March 13, 2023, 2:12 a.m. This repo has been linked 5 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2022-45063 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

Results are limited to the first 20 news articles due to potential performance issues.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2022-45063 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/10/1
    Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/10/5
    Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/15/1
    Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/17/1
    Added Reference https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4TPVNTYFFWNTGZJJQAA4MGGFSTXA4XEA/
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5T2JI5JCHPTXX2KJU45H2XAHQSFVEJ2Y/
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IVD3I2ZFXGOY6BA2FNS7WPFMPFBDHFWC/
    Added Reference https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33546415
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202211-09
    Added Reference https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/10/1
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jun. 17, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference MITRE http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/17/1 [No types assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jun. 15, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference MITRE http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/15/1 [No types assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 07, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IVD3I2ZFXGOY6BA2FNS7WPFMPFBDHFWC/ [No types assigned]
    Added Reference MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/4TPVNTYFFWNTGZJJQAA4MGGFSTXA4XEA/ [No types assigned]
    Added Reference MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5T2JI5JCHPTXX2KJU45H2XAHQSFVEJ2Y/ [No types assigned]
    Removed Reference MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/IVD3I2ZFXGOY6BA2FNS7WPFMPFBDHFWC/
    Removed Reference MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/5T2JI5JCHPTXX2KJU45H2XAHQSFVEJ2Y/
    Removed Reference MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/4TPVNTYFFWNTGZJJQAA4MGGFSTXA4XEA/
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Dec. 02, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/4TPVNTYFFWNTGZJJQAA4MGGFSTXA4XEA/ No Types Assigned https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/4TPVNTYFFWNTGZJJQAA4MGGFSTXA4XEA/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/5T2JI5JCHPTXX2KJU45H2XAHQSFVEJ2Y/ No Types Assigned https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/5T2JI5JCHPTXX2KJU45H2XAHQSFVEJ2Y/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/IVD3I2ZFXGOY6BA2FNS7WPFMPFBDHFWC/ No Types Assigned https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/IVD3I2ZFXGOY6BA2FNS7WPFMPFBDHFWC/ Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202211-09 No Types Assigned https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202211-09 Third Party Advisory
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 23, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/5T2JI5JCHPTXX2KJU45H2XAHQSFVEJ2Y/ [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/4TPVNTYFFWNTGZJJQAA4MGGFSTXA4XEA/ [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 22, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202211-09 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 20, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/IVD3I2ZFXGOY6BA2FNS7WPFMPFBDHFWC/ [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Nov. 15, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Changed Reference Type http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/10/1 No Types Assigned http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/10/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/10/5 No Types Assigned http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/10/5 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html No Types Assigned https://invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.log.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33546415 No Types Assigned https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33546415 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/10/1 No Types Assigned https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/10/1 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
    Added CWE NIST CWE-77
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:invisible-island:xterm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 375
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 10, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/10/5 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 10, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/11/10/1 [No Types Assigned]
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
Vulnerability Scoring Details
Base CVSS Score: 9.8
Attack Vector
Attack Complexity
Privileges Required
User Interaction
Scope
Confidentiality Impact
Integrity Impact
Availability Impact
Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

3.55 }} 1.76%

score

0.87279

percentile