CVE-2004-2215: Marc Lehmann Rxvt-Unicode

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

RXVT-Unicode 3.4 and 3.5 does not properly close file descriptors, which allows local users to access the terminals of other users and possibly gain privileges.

Affected products

• Marc Lehmann Rxvt-Unicode: version 3.4 only; version 3.5 only

Published 2004-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.