Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-46321

Critical

Published: 23 October 2023

Published
23 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 0.0034 57.1th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-46321 is a critical-severity Improper Output Neutralization for Logs (CWE-117) vulnerability in Iterm2 Iterm2. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked in the top 42.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

iTermSessionLauncher.m in iTerm2 before 3.5.0beta12 does not sanitize paths in x-man-page URLs. They may have shell metacharacters for a /usr/bin/man command line.

CWE(s)
NVD-CWE-noinfoCWE-117

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

iterm2
iterm2
3.5.0 · ≤ 3.4.21

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.

AU-1 Policy and Procedures
addresses: CWE-117

Policy and procedures require sanitization and neutralization when generating audit logs to avoid injection issues.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering
addresses: CWE-117

Requiring output to conform to expected content prevents unneutralized data from reaching logs.

References