CVE-2003-0021: Michael Jennings Eterm

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The "screen dump" feature in Eterm 0.9.1 and earlier allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a certain character escape sequence when it is echoed to a user's terminal, e.g. when the user views a file containing the malicious sequence.

Affected products

• Michael Jennings Eterm: version 0.8.10 only; version 0.9.1 only

Published 2003-03-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.