The rxvt-unicode package is vulnerable to a remote code execution, in the Perl background extension, when an attacker can control the data written to the user's terminal and certain options are set.
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/12/05/1
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202310-20
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2151597
Source: Mitre, NVD
Published: 2022-12-09
Updated: 2025-04-14
Base Score: 10
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Severity: Critical
Base Score: 9.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS: 0.01486