CVE-2022-4170

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-4170
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-4170.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-4170
Downstream
Related
Published
2022-12-09T00:00:00Z
Modified
2026-05-28T04:08:15.567095383Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The rxvt-unicode package is vulnerable to a remote code execution, in the Perl background extension, when an attacker can control the data written to the user's terminal and certain options are set.

Database specific 
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/4xxx/CVE-2022-4170.json",
    "cna_assigner": "fedora",
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "rxvt-unicode 9.30"
                }
            ],
            "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD"
        }
    ],
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-74"
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/exg/rxvt-unicode

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/exg/rxvt-unicode
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
4cbc689ec6ff9174e2d28c12f5777e224b2c79ba
Last affected
963a50ca86662feb39951be3cd601a305aef6a8a
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "9.25"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "9.26"
        }
    ],
    "cpe": [
        "cpe:2.3:a:rxvt-unicode_project:rxvt-unicode:9.25:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:rxvt-unicode_project:rxvt-unicode:9.26:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "source": "CPE_STRING"
}

Affected versions

rxvt-unicode-1.*
rxvt-unicode-1.2
rxvt-unicode-1.3
rxvt-unicode-1.9
rxvt-unicode-2.*
rxvt-unicode-2.0
rxvt-unicode-2.1
rxvt-unicode-2.2
rxvt-unicode-2.3
rxvt-unicode-2.4
rxvt-unicode-2.5
rxvt-unicode-2.7
rxvt-unicode-2.8
rxvt-unicode-3.*
rxvt-unicode-3.0
rxvt-unicode-3.2
rxvt-unicode-3.3
rxvt-unicode-3.4
rxvt-unicode-3.5
rxvt-unicode-3.6
rxvt-unicode-3.7
rxvt-unicode-3.8
rxvt-unicode-4.*
rxvt-unicode-4.0
rxvt-unicode-4.1
rxvt-unicode-4.2
rxvt-unicode-4.3
rxvt-unicode-4.4
rxvt-unicode-4.6
rxvt-unicode-4.7
rxvt-unicode-4.8
rxvt-unicode-4.9
rxvt-unicode-5.*
rxvt-unicode-5.0
rxvt-unicode-5.1
rxvt-unicode-5.2
rxvt-unicode-5.3
rxvt-unicode-5.4
rxvt-unicode-5.5
rxvt-unicode-5.7
rxvt-unicode-5.8
rxvt-unicode-5.9
rxvt-unicode-6.*
rxvt-unicode-6.0
rxvt-unicode-6.1
rxvt-unicode-6.2
rxvt-unicode-6.3
rxvt-unicode-7.*
rxvt-unicode-7.0
rxvt-unicode-7.1
rxvt-unicode-7.2
rxvt-unicode-7.3
rxvt-unicode-7.3a
rxvt-unicode-7.4
rxvt-unicode-7.5
rxvt-unicode-7.6
rxvt-unicode-7.7
rxvt-unicode-7.8
rxvt-unicode-7.9
rxvt-unicode-8.*
rxvt-unicode-8.0
rxvt-unicode-8.1
rxvt-unicode-8.2
rxvt-unicode-8.3
rxvt-unicode-8.4
rxvt-unicode-8.5a
rxvt-unicode-8.6
rxvt-unicode-8.7
rxvt-unicode-8.8
rxvt-unicode-8.9
rxvt-unicode-9.*
rxvt-unicode-9.0
rxvt-unicode-9.01
rxvt-unicode-9.02
rxvt-unicode-9.05
rxvt-unicode-9.06
rxvt-unicode-9.07
rxvt-unicode-9.09
rxvt-unicode-9.10
rxvt-unicode-9.11
rxvt-unicode-9.12
rxvt-unicode-9.14
rxvt-unicode-9.15
rxvt-unicode-9.16
rxvt-unicode-9.17
rxvt-unicode-9.18
rxvt-unicode-9.19
rxvt-unicode-9.20
rxvt-unicode-9.21
rxvt-unicode-9.22
rxvt-unicode-9.25
rxvt-unicode-9.26

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-4170.json"