CVE-2006-7236: Invisible-Island Xterm

High severity, CVSS 9.3. EPSS: 7.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The default configuration of xterm on Debian GNU/Linux sid and possibly Ubuntu enables the allowWindowOps resource, which allows user-assisted attackers to execute arbitrary code or have unspecified other impact via escape sequences.

Affected products

Published 2009-01-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.