CVE-2003-0070: Gnome Gnome-Terminal

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

VTE, as used by default in gnome-terminal terminal emulator 2.2 and as an option in gnome-terminal 2.0, 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

• Gnome Gnome-Terminal: version 2.0 only; version 2.2 only
• Nalin Dahyabhai Vte: version 0.11.21 only; version 0.12.2 only; version 0.14.2 only; version 0.15.0 only; version 0.16.14 only; version 0.17.4 only; …

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