Published: 12/01/2017 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10

CVSS v3 Base Score: 9.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 668

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

The REPL server (--listen) in GNU Guile 2.0.12 allows an malicious user to execute arbitrary code via an HTTP inter-protocol attack.

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Debian Bug report logs - #840555 guile-20: CVE-2016-8606 Package: src:guile-20; Maintainer for src:guile-20 is Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalueorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2016 18:39:01 UTC Severity: important Tags: patch, security, upstream Found in versions guile- ...

It was reported that the REPL server is vulnerable to the HTTP inter-protocol attack This constitutes a remote code execution vulnerability for developers running a REPL server that listens on a loopback device or private network Applications that do not run a REPL server, as is usually the case, are unaffected ...

CWE-284 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93514 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/12/2 https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6QTAGSDCTYXTABAA77BQJGNKOOBRV4DK/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UJP5S36GTXMDEBXWF6LKKV76DSLNQG44/https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FNVE5N24FLWDYBQ3LAFMF6BFCWKDO7VM/https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=840555 https://nvd.nist.gov https://security.archlinux.org/CVE-2016-8606

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