CVE-2022-4170

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CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

EPSS

2%p80

Published

Dec 9, 2022 (Dec 9, 2022)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

The rxvt-unicode package is vulnerable to a remote code execution, in the Perl background extension, when an attacker can control the data written to the user's terminal and certain options are set.

Vendors: rxvt-unicode project fedoraproject
Products: rxvt-unicode, extra packages for enterprise linux, fedora
Weakness: CWE-74
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (2.1%)

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