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CVE-2022-4170

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.8 EPSS 2.06% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2022-12-09 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

Detected Signals
remote code execution code execution

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CVE
CVE-2022-4170
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
2.06%

Original NVD 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.