7.5
CVSSv2

CVE-2015-0859

Published: 03/12/2015 Updated: 04/12/2015
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

The Debian build procedure for the smokeping package in wheezy prior to 2.6.8-2+deb7u1 and jessie prior to 2.6.9-1+deb8u1 does not properly configure the way Apache httpd passes arguments to smokeping_cgi, which allows remote malicious users to execute arbitrary code via crafted CGI arguments.

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Tero Marttila discovered that the Debian packaging for smokeping installed it in such a way that the CGI implementation of Apache httpd (mod_cgi) passed additional arguments to the smokeping_cgi program, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution in response to crafted HTTP requests For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has be ...