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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2024-38395

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."

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CVE-2024-38395
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7 Nov 2026, 01:54 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2024-38395

core-osv · Original source

Published 16 Jun 2024, 00:00 UTC

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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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-38395",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2024-38395",
    "summary": "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.\"",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2024-38395",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:48.742559343Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/tags/v3.5.2",
        "https://iterm2.com/downloads.html",
        "https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/15/1",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/38xxx/CVE-2024-38395.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-38395",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 517143,
  "published_at": "2024-06-16T00:00:00+00:00"
}