Security advisory

{
  "id": "03bef406b9750157d3e8065d9fe84e9078701ae22b3e7bccec5e846d03972a60",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38396",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2024-38396",
    "summary": "An issue was discovered in iTerm2 3.5.x before 3.5.2. Unfiltered use of an escape sequence to report a window title, in combination with the built-in tmux integration feature (enabled by default), allows an attacker to inject arbitrary code into the terminal, a different vulnerability than CVE-2024-38395.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2024-38396",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2024-38396",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2024-38396"
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      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/gnachman/iterm2",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "7ff0a05755330fcf4f617c8e4464c81f2391995d"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "978671323e157eee060880c9a17d2fcea437b724"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
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                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:iterm2:iterm2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "3.5.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "3.5.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            },
            {
              "repo": "https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2",
              "type": "GIT",
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                {
                  "introduced": "7ff0a05755330fcf4f617c8e4464c81f2391995d"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "978671323e157eee060880c9a17d2fcea437b724"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "fc60236a914d63fb70a5c632e211203a4f1bd4dd"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "3.5.x"
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                      {
                        "fixed": "3.5.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "DESCRIPTION"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
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                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-38396.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:49.708762490Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://iterm2.com/downloads.html",
        "https://vin01.github.io/piptagole/escape-sequences/iterm2/rce/2024/06/16/iterm2-rce-window-title-tmux-integration.html",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/38xxx/CVE-2024-38396.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38396",
        "https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/commit/fc60236a914d63fb70a5c632e211203a4f1bd4dd"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cna_assigner": "mitre",
        "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/38xxx/CVE-2024-38396.json"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2024-38396",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 518139,
  "published_at": "2024-06-16T00:00:00+00:00"
}