CVE-2024-38395 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

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."

Published: 2024-06-16

Score: 9.8 Critical

EPSS: 9.2% 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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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:iterm2:iterm2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

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 0.09237.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact total

References

Link	Providers
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/06/17/1
https://gitlab.com/gnachman/iterm2/-/commit/f1e89f78dd72dcac3ba66d3d6f93db3f7f649219
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

History

Thu, 26 Feb 2026 11:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Wed, 18 Jun 2025 17:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Iterm2 Iterm2 iterm2
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:iterm2:iterm2::::::::
Vendors & Products		Iterm2 Iterm2 iterm2

Subscriptions

Iterm2 Iterm2

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2024-06-16T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T04:12:24.681Z

Reserved: 2024-06-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2024-38395

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T04:12:24.681Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2024-06-16T01:15:48.537

Modified: 2025-06-18T16:40:48.790

Link: CVE-2024-38395

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-94

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