Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-40359

Critical

Published: 14 August 2023

Published
14 August 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 0.0018 39.0th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-40359 is a critical-severity an unspecified weakness vulnerability in Invisible-Island Xterm. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked at the 39.0th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

xterm before 380 supports ReGIS reporting for character-set names even if they have unexpected characters (i.e., neither alphanumeric nor underscore), aka a pointer/overflow issue. This can only occur for xterm installations that are configured at compile time to use a…

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certain experimental feature.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfo

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

invisible-island
xterm
≤ 380

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References