Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-39726

Critical

Published: 26 October 2023

Published
26 October 2023
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0159 82.0th percentile
Risk Priority 21 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-39726 is a critical-severity Static Code Injection (CWE-96) vulnerability in Mintty Project Mintty. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 18.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An issue in Mintty v.3.6.4 and before allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via crafted commands to the terminal.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfoCWE-96

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

mintty project
mintty
≤ 3.6.4

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SC-34 Non-modifiable Executable Programs
addresses: CWE-96

Eliminates the possibility of static code injection into saved executables by making the storage non-modifiable.

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