CVE-2003-0068: Michael Jennings Eterm

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Eterm terminal emulator 0.9.1 and earlier 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

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

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