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7-Year-Old Critical RCE Flaw Found in Popular iTerm2 macOS Terminal App
2019-10-09 18:49

A 7-year-old critical remote code execution vulnerability has been discovered in iTerm2 macOS terminal emulator app—one of the most popular open source replacements for Mac's built-in terminal app. Tracked as CVE-2019-9535, the vulnerability in iTerm2 was discovered as part of an independent security audit funded by the Mozilla Open Source Support Program (MOSS) and conducted by cybersecurity


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Related Vulnerability

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2019-10-09 CVE-2019-9535 Injection vulnerability in Iterm2
A vulnerability exists in the way that iTerm2 integrates with tmux's control mode, which may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary commands by providing malicious output to the terminal.
network
low complexity
iterm2 CWE-74
critical
9.8