Description
iTerm2 before 3.7.7beta2 has an argument injection vulnerability in the x-man-page: URL handler, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the logged-in user by inducing the user to open a crafted URL in iTerm2. Percent-encoded NUL characters survive input sanitization and are subsequently converted to whitespace during command-line parsing, allowing injection of additional arguments to /usr/bin/man. An attacker can inject the -P option to select an attacker-controlled pager command. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2023-46321.
Published: 2026-11-05
Score: 8.7 High
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

Vendor Solution

The maintainer confirms that the fix first shipped in iTerm2 3.7.7beta2 and will be included in the 3.7.7 stable release. The x-man-page: handler now validates manual-page sections and page names against an allowlist of characters. URLs containing NUL or other disallowed characters are rejected with a warning. Users should upgrade to a release containing this fix.

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History

Thu, 05 Nov 2026 06:45:00 +0000

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Title Argument Injection via x-man-page URL Handler in iTerm2

Thu, 05 Nov 2026 05:30:00 +0000

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Description iTerm2 before 3.7.7beta2 has an argument injection vulnerability in the x-man-page: URL handler, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the logged-in user by inducing the user to open a crafted URL in iTerm2. Percent-encoded NUL characters survive input sanitization and are subsequently converted to whitespace during command-line parsing, allowing injection of additional arguments to /usr/bin/man. An attacker can inject the -P option to select an attacker-controlled pager command. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2023-46321.
First Time appeared Iterm2
Iterm2 iterm2
Weaknesses CWE-88
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:iterm2:iterm2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Iterm2
Iterm2 iterm2
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 8.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2026-11-05T05:25:55.141Z

Reserved: 2026-11-05T05:25:54.727Z

Link: CVE-2026-123014

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No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-11-05T06:17:07.707

Modified: 2026-11-05T06:17:07.707

Link: CVE-2026-123014

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-11-05T06:30:08Z

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