CVE-2024-37535 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

GNOME VTE before 0.76.3 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a window resize escape sequence, a related issue to CVE-2000-0476.

Published: 2024-06-09

Score: 4.4 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Ubuntu USN	USN-6833-1	VTE vulnerability

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00016.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/09/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/09/2
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/issues/2786
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/tags/0.76.3
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-37535
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-37535

History

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

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MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-06-09T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T03:57:39.612Z

Reserved: 2024-06-09T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2024-37535

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T03:57:39.612Z

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2024-06-09T15:16:00.940

Modified: 2026-04-15T00:35:42.020

Link: CVE-2024-37535

Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2024-06-09T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-37535 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-400

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