Rxvt vulnerabilitiesNone on the known-exploited list.

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The short answer

Rxvt has 7 published vulnerabilities across 1 product in our catalogue. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. The most affected product is Rxvt, with 7. If you run Rxvt software, patch the exploited flaws first.

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Products

Which Rxvt products have the most vulnerabilities?

Rxvt leads with 7 published vulnerabilities. Open a product to see its versions and which of its flaws criminals are already using.

  1. Rxvt7
Published vulnerabilities
Known exploited

Which Rxvt vulnerabilities are being exploited?

This is the list that matters most: flaws criminals are using now.

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

Exploit likelihood

Which Rxvt 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. 2.0%

    The rxvt terminal emulator 2.7.8 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. 1.7%

    The menuBar feature in rxvt 2.7.8 allows attackers to modify menu options and execute arbitrary commands via a certain character escape sequence that inserts the commands into the menu.

    CVSS5.0Published3 Mar 2003
  4. 1.4%

    The "screen dump" feature in rxvt 2.7.8 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
  5. 1.1%

    Buffer overflow in tt_printf function of rxvt 2.6.2 allows local users to gain privileges via a long (1) -T or (2) -name argument.

    CVSS4.6Published15 Jun 2001
  6. 0.4%

    rxvt, when compiled with the PRINT_PIPE option in various Linux operating systems including Linux Slackware 3.0 and RedHat 2.1, allows local users to gain root privileges by specifying a malicious program using the...

    CVSS7.2Published2 Jan 1996
  7. 0.4%

    rxvt 2.6.4 opens a terminal window on :0 if the DISPLAY environment variable is not set, which might allow local users to hijack X11 connections.

    CVSS3.7Published7 Apr 2008
Every product

All Rxvt products we track.

1 products, most vulnerabilities first. Find the ones you run, then open a product to see its versions and exploited flaws.

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Our catalogue lists 7 published vulnerabilities across 1 product and 8 versions from Rxvt.

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

Rxvt, with 7 published vulnerabilities. Its own page lists the ones known to be exploited.

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