Aggregates CVE and security vulnerability intelligence across all rxvt-related products, including CVSS, EPSS, publication dates, and vulnerability intelligence data.
Historical issues mainly involve vendor risk buffer overflow and vendor risk denial of service and related problems; some flaws may lead to vendor impact application crash and vendor impact file overwrite.
| CVE | Summary | Source | Max CVSS | EPSS % | Published | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2008-1142 | 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. NOTE: it was later reported that rxvt-unicode, mrxvt, aterm, multi-aterm, and wterm are also affected. NOTE: realistic attack scenarios require that the victim enters a command on the wrong machine. | [email protected] | 3.7 | 0.06% | 2008-04-07 | 2026-04-23 |
| CVE-2003-0066 | 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. when the user views a file containing the malicious sequence, which could allow the attacker to execute arbitrary commands. | [email protected] | 7.5 | 0.71% | 2003-03-03 | 2026-04-16 |
| CVE-2003-0023 | 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. | [email protected] | 5.0 | 0.78% | 2003-03-03 | 2026-04-16 |
| CVE-2003-0022 | 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. when the user views a file containing the malicious sequence. | [email protected] | 5.0 | 1.08% | 2003-03-03 | 2026-04-16 |
| CVE-2001-1077 | 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. | [email protected] | 4.6 | 0.29% | 2001-06-15 | 2026-04-16 |
| CVE-2000-0476 | 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. | [email protected] | 5.0 | 9.50% | 2000-06-01 | 2026-04-16 |
| CVE-1999-1186 | 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 -print-pipe command line parameter. | [email protected] | 7.2 | 0.22% | 1996-01-02 | 2026-04-16 |