# CVE-2022-24949: Privilege escalation in Eternal Terminal

> Attackers can escalate privileges to root via a race condition and buffer overflow in Eternal Terminal's socket handler.

- **Severity:** High 7.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 16 Aug 2022
- **Updated:** 3 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-hxg8-4r3q-p9rv

## What is CVE-2022-24949?

CVE-2022-24949 is a high-severity vulnerability in Jason Gauci Eternal Terminal, published on 16 Aug 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A privilege escalation to root exists in Eternal Terminal prior to version 6.2.0. This is due to the combination of a race condition, buffer overflow, and logic bug all in PipeSocketHandler::listen().

Weakness: CWE-120 (Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input), CWE-362 (Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-24949?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Eternal Terminal Project Eternal Terminal.

## How do I fix CVE-2022-24949?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

## Is CVE-2022-24949 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-24949 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Jason Gauci Eternal Terminal

- [CVE-2022-24950](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-24950/): Race condition in Eternal Terminal (high 7.5)
- [CVE-2022-24951](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-24951/): Race condition in Eternal Terminal (high 7.0)
- [CVE-2022-24952](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-24952/): Several denial of service vulnerabilities exist in Eternal Terminal prior to version 6.2.0, including a DoS triggered remotely by an invalid (medium 6.5)
- [CVE-2023-23558](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-23558/): Path traversal in n/a (medium 6.3)
- [CVE-2022-48257](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-48257/): Information disclosure in n/a (medium 5.3)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2022-24949 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2022-24949 is a high-severity vulnerability in Jason Gauci Eternal Terminal, published on 16 Aug 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-24949 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Jason Gauci Eternal Terminal. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-24949/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-24949/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-24949
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24949
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-24949

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2022-24949/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.