CVE-2022-4170
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-4170
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2022-4170.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2022-4170
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2022-12-09T18:15:20.327Z
- Modified
- 2025-11-20T12:09:59.667067Z
- 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.
- References
Affected packages
Git / github.com/exg/rxvt-unicode
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/exg/rxvt-unicode
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedLast affectedLast affectedLast affected
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