SB2017112218 - OS Command Injection in korsakov ohcount
Published: November 22, 2017 Updated: August 8, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017112218
CSH Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Code execution
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) OS Command Injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2017-16926)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Ohcount 3.0.0 is prone to a command injection via specially crafted filenames containing shell metacharacters, which can be exploited by an attacker (providing a source tree for Ohcount processing) to execute arbitrary code as the user running Ohcount.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.