CVE-2003-0064: HP HP-Ux

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The dtterm terminal emulator allows attackers to modify the window title via a certain character escape sequence and then insert it back to the command line in the user's terminal, e.g. when the user views a file containing the malicious sequence, which could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands.

Affected products

• HP HP-Ux: version 10.20 only; version 10.24 only; version 10.26 only; version 10.30 only; version 10.34 only; version 11.00 only; …
• IBM Aix: version 4.3 only; version 4.3.1 only; version 4.3.2 only; version 4.3.3 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.2 only
• Sgi Irix: version 5.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.1 only; version 5.1.1 only; version 5.2 only; version 5.3 only; …
• Sun Solaris: version 2.5.1 only; version 2.6 only; version 7.0 only; version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Sun Sunos: affected versions not specified; version 5.5.1 only; version 5.7 only; version 5.8 only

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