CVE-2026-41253 PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre
Reserved: 18.04.2026 Published: 18.04.2026 Updated: 18.04.2026

In iTerm2 through 3.6.9, displaying a .txt file can cause code execution via DCS 2000p and OSC 135 data, if the working directory contains a malicious file whose name is valid output from the conductor encoding path, such as a pathname with an initial ace/c+ substring, aka "hypothetical in-band signaling abuse." This occurs because iTerm2 accepts the SSH conductor protocol from terminal output that does not originate from a legitimate conductor session.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
CVSS Score: 6.9

Product Status

Vendor iTerm2
Product iTerm2
Versions Default: unknown
  • affected from 0 to 3.6.9 (incl.)

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-829 Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere CWE