Critical
Security advisory
In iTerm2 before 3.5.2, the "Terminal may report window title" setting is not honored, and thus remote code execution might occur but "is not trivially exploitable."
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2024-38395
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 7 Nov 2026, 01:54 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In iTerm2 before 3.5.2, the "Terminal may report window title" setting is not honored, and thus remote code execution might occur but "is not trivially exploitable."
osv:CVE-2024-38395
Complete source record
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