CVE Tools

Xterm

9 CVEs tracked. None of them is in CISA KEV.

This hub aggregates every CVE we track for Xterm, a product in the oss libraries space. Use it to gauge the current risk picture and drill into individual advisories.

Xterm CVEs per month

Oct 2024 to Sep 2026. Point at a month, or focus the strip and use the arrow keys.
Xterm CVEs per month
MonthCVEs
2024-100
2024-110
2024-120
2025-010
2025-020
2025-030
2025-040
2025-050
2025-060
2025-070
2025-080
2025-090
2025-100
2025-110
2025-120
2026-010
2026-020
2026-030
2026-040
2026-050
2026-060
2026-070
2026-080
2026-090

Severity

How the 9 CVEs score on CVSS. Severity is not exploitation: KEV is counted above.

  • Critical556%
  • High222%
  • Medium111%
  • Low111%

Latest CVEs

The 9 most recently published vulnerabilities affecting Xterm.

  1. CVE-2023-40359xterm before 380 supports ReGIS reporting for character-set names even if they have unexpected characters (i.e., neither alphanumeric nor underscore), aka a pointer/overflow issue. This can only oc...9.8
  2. CVE-2022-45063xterm 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 ...9.8
  3. CVE-2022-24130xterm through Patch 370, when Sixel support is enabled, allows attackers to trigger a buffer overflow in set_sixel in graphics_sixel.c via crafted text.5.5
  4. CVE-2021-27135xterm before Patch #366 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a crafted UTF-8 combining character sequence.9.8
  5. CVE-2019-0542A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Xterm.js when the component mishandles special characters, aka "Xterm Remote Code Execution Vulnerability." This affects xterm.js.8.8
  6. CVE-2006-7236The default configuration of xterm on Debian GNU/Linux sid and possibly Ubuntu enables the allowWindowOps resource, which allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code or have unspecifie...9.3
  7. CVE-2008-2383CRLF injection vulnerability in xterm allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary commands via LF (aka \n) characters surrounding a command name within a Device Control Request Status Strin...9.3
  8. CVE-2007-2797xterm, including 192-7.el4 in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and 208-3.1 in Debian GNU/Linux, sets the wrong group ownership of tty devices, which allows local users to write data to other users' terminals.2.1
  9. CVE-2006-4447X.Org and XFree86, including libX11, xdm, xf86dga, xinit, xload, xtrans, and xterm, does not check the return values for setuid and seteuid calls when attempting to drop privileges, which might all...7.2

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