CVE-2002-1898: Apple Terminal

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 3.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Terminal 1.3 in Apple Mac OS X 10.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a telnet:// link, which is executed by Terminal.app window.

Affected products

• Apple Terminal: before 1.3.1 (fixed in 1.3.1)

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.