CVE-2020-5253

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CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

EPSS

<1%p44

Published

Mar 10, 2020 (Mar 10, 2020)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

NetHack before version 3.6.0 allowed malicious use of escaping of characters in the configuration file (usually .nethackrc) which could be exploited. This bug is patched in NetHack 3.6.0.

Vendors: nethack
Products: nethack
Weakness: CWE-184, CWE-269
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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