Terminal2Shell is a design-level vulnerability in terminal emulators. When a terminal is launched, it immediately spawns a shell process and connects it directly to the user’s keyboard. From there, the attacker can issue arbitrary commands with the full privileges of the logged-in user.
Researchers have confirmed that the shell will execute any command typed into it, including commands that delete files, install software, and modify system configuration. In some cases, the shell has been observed executing commands the user typed themselves.
| Product | Vector | Status |
|---|---|---|
| macOS | Terminal.app, iTerm2, Ghostty, Warp | VULNERABLE |
| Linux | gnome-terminal, Konsole, xterm, Ctrl+Alt+F2 | VULNERABLE |
| Windows | cmd.exe, PowerShell, Windows Terminal, WSL | VULNERABLE |
| FreeBSD / OpenBSD | Literally the default experience | VULNERABLE |
| DEC VT100 (1978) | Physical serial cable | VULNERABLE |
| Your router | SSH, telnet, the little console port on the back | VULNERABLE |
| VS Code | Ctrl+` (one keystroke!) | VULNERABLE |
| Microsoft Paint | None known | Not affected |
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@Infrapink @schenklklopfer I shared it at work and some people just do not have a sense of humor.
Another good one is: ssh2rce.com
Just tested my system, and it looks like I’m vulnerable. I’m uninstalling bash to see if th
I deleted the whole /usr/bin to be sur
You’ve hit your output token li
A # prompt indicates the attacker has obtained root. Disconnect from the network, then from society.
😁
And it was discovered with an LLM by some “vibe coder” (please hold your nose while pronouncing) with curly blonde hair, empty blue eyes, a business degree, and horrible political opinions. In addition, he talks your ear off about the inevitable glorious agentic AI future and how nobody needs RAM and that all resources in the world should be used towards bringing this future to past, with his response to most arguments against him being something along the lines of “resistance is futile”.
Oh. This is a joke.
I’m too tired anymore to know what is real apparently.
Lol yeah. It should have been obvious sooner given how thick it lays the joke on - but I had already entered the “groaning and preparing to power everything down” phase before reading the website.
Ha, my stack of punched cards are immune! Now I just need something to read them…
My mum’s old knitting machine takes those!
Time to port Doom to that
A quilt with frames of Doom woven into it would be so cool
- SINGLE PLAYER
- LOCAL MULTIPLAYER
- ADD-ONS
- OPTIONS
- BETHESDA.NET
No privilege elevation? CVE 0
Mac OS 9 and earlier are not effected. Clear the the be… bes… (cringe) best OS ever.
I’m ashamed it took me THAT long. Only upon opening my yakuake it slowly dawned on me. I really feel dumb now…
Several case studies exist of AI agents autonomously executing the Terminal2Shell exploit in order to alter files and run programs on accessed systems. The only solution is a trillion more dollars in investment.
This is what I’m here for
@Infrapink ngl I first thought this was real and retooted. This should be marked with a CW imho for it being a shitpost
It’s literally in the programmerhumor community 😂
@Guiorgy so? I don’t have reddit. This is fedi, not some bullshit American platform lol
What are you talking about? I don’t know what you use to browse Lemmy, but I use Voyager and it shows clearly that this was posted on the programmerhumor lemmy community/world/instance 😂
@Guiorgy whatever a Lemmy is. Well, its a instance to block is what I’m sure lol
OK, let’s all calm down and stop insulting each other.
@commanderred@chaos.social is using Mastodon account, so they probably won’t even see the magazine, as Mastodon doesn’t really support them.
Lemmy is a federated social media software; basically, Lemmy is to Reddit as Mastodon is to Twitter. @Guiorgy@lemmy.ml should know that the Fediverse is bigger than just Lemmy (I use mbin, which is also federated Reddit but different to Lemmy).
Because Mastodon, Lemmy, and mbin all use ActivityPub, we can all talk to each other despite our accounts being on different websites running different software.
