CVE-2022-45063 Command injection in n/a

What is CVE-2022-45063?

CVE-2022-45063 is a critical command injection vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 10 Nov 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

xterm before 375 allows code execution via font ops, e.g., because an OSC 50 response may have Ctrl-g and therefore lead to command execution within the vi line-editing mode of Zsh. NOTE: font ops are not allowed in the xterm default configurations of some Linux distributions.

Weakness: CWE-77

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-45063?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Invisible-Island Xterm.

How do I fix CVE-2022-45063?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2022-45063 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-45063 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALSA-2025:7427, AZL-11429, CLSA-2022-1669236294, CLSA-2022-1669237302, CLSA-2022-1669238963, CLSA-2022-1669239895 and 16 more.