CVE-2022-4170
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=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
- 2022-12-09T00:00:00Z
- Modified
- 2026-07-08T06:04:09.293068265Z
- Severity
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- 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
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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
{ "unresolved_ranges": [ { "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD", "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "rxvt-unicode 9.30" }, { "last_affected": "rxvt-unicode 9.30" } ] } ], "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/4xxx/CVE-2022-4170.json", "cna_assigner": "fedora", "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
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IntroducedLast affected
- Database specific
{ "source": "CPE_STRING", "cpe": [ "cpe:2.3:a:rxvt-unicode_project:rxvt-unicode:9.25:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "cpe:2.3:a:rxvt-unicode_project:rxvt-unicode:9.26:*:*:*:*:*:*:*" ], "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "9.25" }, { "last_affected": "9.25" }, { "introduced": "9.26" }, { "last_affected": "9.26" } ] }