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MitreCVE-2018-16741

HistorySep 13, 2018 - 4:29 p.m.

CVE-2018-16741

2018-09-1316:29:00

CWE-78

mitre

web.nvd.nist.gov

mgetty

security issue

command injection

shell metacharacters

cve-2018-16741

CVSS2

7.2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

COMPLETE

Integrity Impact

COMPLETE

Availability Impact

COMPLETE

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS3

7.8

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

AI Score

7.7

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

40.3%

JSON

An issue was discovered in mgetty before 1.2.1. In fax/faxq-helper.c, the function do_activate() does not properly sanitize shell metacharacters to prevent command injection. It is possible to use the ||, &&, or > characters within a file created by the “faxq-helper activate <jobid>” command.

Affected configurations

Nvd

Node

mgetty_projectmgettyRange<1.2.1

Node

debiandebian_linuxMatch8.0

debiandebian_linuxMatch9.0

VendorProductVersionCPE
mgetty_projectmgetty*cpe:2.3:a:mgetty_project:mgetty:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
debiandebian_linux8.0cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
debiandebian_linux9.0cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE
mgetty_project	mgetty	*	cpe:2.3:a:mgetty_project:mgetty::::::::
debian	debian_linux	8.0	cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:::::::*
debian	debian_linux	9.0	cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:::::::*