Number: AV19-226
Date : 09 October 2019
On 9 October 2019 the Mozilla Open Source Support Program (MOSS) released an advisory to address a Critical vulnerability found while reviewing the source code of iTerm2, a macOS terminal emulation program. Exploitation of this vulnerability by a remote actor may allow them to execute commands of their choice on the host computer.
The Cyber Centre encourages users and administrators to review this advisory on Mozilla’s Security Blog:
https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2019/10/09/iterm2-critical-issue-moss-audit/
An updated version of the iTerm2 program can be downloaded from the product website:
https://iterm2.com/downloads.html
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