Information Exposure Affecting gnachman/iterm2 package, versions [,3.1.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.91% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GNACHMANITERM2-2366249
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed20 Sept 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 Sep 2017

CVE-2015-9231  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade gnachman/iterm2 to version 3.1.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure iTerm2 3.x before 3.1.1 allows remote attackers to discover passwords by reading DNS queries. A new (default) feature was added to iTerm2 version 3.0.0 (and unreleased 2.9.x versions such as 2.9.20150717) that resulted in a potential information disclosure. In an attempt to see whether the text under the cursor (or selected text) was a URL, the text would be sent as an unencrypted DNS query. This has the potential to result in passwords and other sensitive information being sent in cleartext without the user being aware.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1