CVE-2003-0077: Hanterm Hanterm-Xf

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

The hanterm (hanterm-xf) terminal emulator 2.0.5 and earlier, and possibly later versions, 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

• Hanterm Hanterm-Xf: up to and including 2.0.5

Published 2003-03-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.