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CVE-2008-1142

rxvt 2.6.4 opens a terminal window on :0 if the DISPLAY environment variable is not set, which might allow local users to hijack X11 connections. NOTE: it was later reported that rxvt-unicode, mrxvt, aterm, multi-aterm, and wterm are also affected. NOTE: realistic attack scenarios require that the victim enters a command on the wrong machine.

Security Impact Summary

CVE-2008-1142 is a security vulnerability that . Impacting 7 products from aterm, from eterm, from mrxvt and 4 others, organizations running these solutions should prioritize assessment and patching.

Historical Context

Originally identified in 2008, this vulnerability predates many modern security frameworks and practices. The vulnerability landscape of that era was characterized by different threat models and less mature defense mechanisms compared to contemporary standards.

Published

2008-04-07T17:44:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv2: 3.7 (LOW)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector: LOCAL
Access Complexity: HIGH
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

1.9

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-264

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	aterm	aterm	≤ 1.0.0	Yes
Application	aterm	aterm	0.1.0	Yes
Application	aterm	aterm	0.1.1	Yes
Application	aterm	aterm	0.2.0	Yes
Application	aterm	aterm	0.3.0	Yes
Application	aterm	aterm	0.3.1	Yes
Application	aterm	aterm	0.3.2	Yes
Application	aterm	aterm	0.3.3	Yes
Application	aterm	aterm	0.3.4	Yes
Application	aterm	aterm	0.3.5	Yes
Application	aterm	aterm	0.3.6	Yes
Application	aterm	aterm	0.4.0	Yes
Application	aterm	aterm	0.4.1	Yes
Application	aterm	aterm	0.4.2	Yes
Application	aterm	aterm	1.00	Yes
Application	aterm	aterm	1.00	Yes
Application	aterm	aterm	1.00	Yes
Application	aterm	aterm	1.00	Yes
Application	eterm	eterm	≤ 0.9.3	Yes
Application	eterm	eterm	0.9.2	Yes
Application	mrxvt	mrxvt	≤ 0.5.2	Yes
Application	mrxvt	mrxvt	0.4.2	Yes
Application	multi-aterm	multi-aterm	≤ 0.2	Yes
Application	multi-aterm	multi-aterm	0.0.1	Yes
Application	multi-aterm	multi-aterm	0.0.3	Yes
Application	multi-aterm	multi-aterm	0.0.4	Yes
Application	multi-aterm	multi-aterm	0.0.5	Yes
Application	multi-aterm	multi-aterm	0.1	Yes
Application	rxvt	rxvt	≤ 2.7.9	Yes
Application	rxvt	rxvt	2.6.1	Yes
Application	rxvt	rxvt	2.6.2	Yes
Application	rxvt	rxvt	2.6.3	Yes
Application	rxvt	rxvt	2.6.4	Yes
Application	rxvt	rxvt	2.7.5	Yes
Application	rxvt	rxvt	2.7.6	Yes
Application	rxvt	rxvt	2.7.7	Yes
Application	rxvt	rxvt	2.7.8	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	≤ 9.01	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	1.0	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	1.1	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	1.2	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	1.3	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	1.4	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	1.5	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	1.6	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	1.7	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	1.8	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	1.9	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	1.91	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	2.0	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	2.1	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	2.2	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	2.3	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	2.4	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	2.5	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	2.6	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	2.7	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	2.8	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	2.9	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	3.0	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	3.1	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	3.2	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	3.3	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	3.4	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	3.5	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	3.6	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	3.7	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	3.8	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	3.9	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	4.0	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	4.1	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	4.2	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	4.3	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	4.4	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	4.5	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	4.6	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	4.7	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	4.8	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	4.9	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	5.0	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	5.1	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	5.2	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	5.3	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	5.4	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	5.5	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	5.6	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	5.7	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	5.8	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	5.9	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	6.0	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	6.1	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	6.2	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	6.3	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	7.0	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	7.1	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	7.2	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	7.3	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	7.4	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	7.5	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	7.6	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	7.7	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	7.8	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	7.9	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	8.0	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	8.1	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	8.2	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	8.3	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	8.4	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	8.5	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	8.5a	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	8.6	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	8.7	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	8.8	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	8.9	Yes
Application	rxvt-unicode	rxvt-unicode	9.0	Yes
Application	wterm	wterm	≤ 6.2.8a2	Yes
Application	wterm	wterm	6.2.5	Yes
Application	wterm	wterm	6.2.6	Yes

References

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/122 ([email protected])
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=469296 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/29576 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/30224 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/30225 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/30226 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/30227 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/30229 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://secunia.com/advisories/31687 Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-03.xml ([email protected])
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:161 ([email protected])
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:221 ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28512 Patch ([email protected])
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/122 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=469296 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-08/msg00006.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/29576 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/30224 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/30225 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/30226 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/30227 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/30229 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://secunia.com/advisories/31687 Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-03.xml (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:161 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:221 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28512 Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

How SecUtils Interprets This CVE

SecUtils normalizes and enriches National Vulnerability Database (NVD) records by standardizing vendor and product identifiers, aggregating vulnerability metadata from both NVD and MITRE sources, and providing structured context for security teams. For aterm's affected products, we extract Common Platform Enumeration (CPE) data, Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) classifications, CVSS severity metrics, and reference data to enable rapid vulnerability prioritization and asset correlation. This record contains no exploit code, proof-of-concept instructions, or attack methodologies—only defensive intelligence necessary for patch management, risk assessment, and security operations.