OS Command Injection in newsbeuter - CVE-2017-12904
Published: August 5, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU33984
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2017-12904
CWE-ID: CWE-78
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary shell commands on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation when processing title and URL in an RSS items. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data via RSS feed to the application and execute arbitrary OS commands on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
Affected software
newsbeuter
Arch Linux
Gentoo Linux
Ubuntu
Opensuse
newsbeuter (Alpine package)
newsbeuter (Ubuntu package)
Arch Linux
Gentoo Linux
Ubuntu
Opensuse
newsbeuter (Alpine package)
newsbeuter (Ubuntu package)
How to mitigate CVE-2017-12904
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.
newsbeuter (Alpine package) - update to 2.9-r4
newsbeuter (Ubuntu package) - update to 2.9-3ubuntu0.1
newsbeuter (Ubuntu package) - update to 2.9-3ubuntu0.1
External References
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3947
- https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/commit/96e9506ae9e252c548665152d1b8968297128307
- https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/issues/591
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/newsbeuter/iFqSE7Vz-DE
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-12904