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CVE-2022-4170
CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2022-12-09T18:15:20.327 · Last modified 2026-06-17T05:20:09.633

Summary

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.

Affected products

rxvt-unicode_project — rxvt-unicode

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References

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