Eterm vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.

Product4 versions
The short answer

Eterm is made by Michael Jennings. We track 6 published vulnerabilities in it, across 4 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Eterm, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.

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Known exploited

Which Eterm vulnerabilities are being exploited?

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None of Eterm's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Eterm flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 2.5%

    xterm, Eterm, and rxvt allow an attacker to cause a denial of service by embedding certain escape characters which force the window to be resized.

    CVSS5.0Published1 Jun 2000
  2. 1.9%

    The Eterm terminal emulator 0.9.1 and earlier 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.

    CVSS7.5Published3 Mar 2003
  3. 1.2%

    The "screen dump" feature in Eterm 0.9.1 and earlier allows attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a certain character escape sequence when it is echoed to a user's terminal, e.g.

    CVSS5.0Published3 Mar 2003
  4. 0.8%

    Buffer overflow in Eterm of Enlightenment Imlib2 1.0.4 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long HOME environment variable.

    CVSS4.6Published25 Mar 2002
  5. 0.4%

    Vulnerability in eterm 0.8.8 in Debian GNU/Linux allows an attacker to gain root privileges.

    CVSS7.2Published18 Feb 1999
  6. 0.4%

    Buffer overflow in Eterm 0.9.2 allows local users to gain privileges via a long ETERMPATH environment variable.

    CVSS4.6Published2 Jul 2003
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We track 6 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Eterm, across 4 versions.

None of Eterm's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

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