9.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2017-12904

Published: 23/08/2017 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 9.3 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 8.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 2.8
VMScore: 828
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command in bookmarking function of Newsbeuter versions 0.7 up to and including 2.9 allows remote malicious users to perform user-assisted code execution by crafting an RSS item that includes shell code in its title and/or URL.

Vulnerability Trend

Vulnerable Product Search on Vulmon Subscribe to Product

newsbeuter newsbeuter 1.0

newsbeuter newsbeuter 2.4

newsbeuter newsbeuter 2.3

newsbeuter newsbeuter 0.8

newsbeuter newsbeuter 1.3

newsbeuter newsbeuter 0.9

newsbeuter newsbeuter 2.0

newsbeuter newsbeuter 2.1

newsbeuter newsbeuter 0.8.1

newsbeuter newsbeuter 2.8

newsbeuter newsbeuter 2.5

newsbeuter newsbeuter 0.8.2

newsbeuter newsbeuter 2.6

newsbeuter newsbeuter 0.7

newsbeuter newsbeuter 2.2

newsbeuter newsbeuter 1.1

newsbeuter newsbeuter 2.7

newsbeuter newsbeuter 2.9

newsbeuter newsbeuter 0.9.1

newsbeuter newsbeuter 1.2

debian debian linux 8.0

debian debian linux 7.0

debian debian linux 9.0

Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #876004 newsbeuter: CVE-2017-14500: Podbeuter podcast fetcher: remote code execution Package: src:newsbeuter; Maintainer for src:newsbeuter is Nikos Tsipinakis <nikos@tsipinakiscom>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2017 09:27:02 UTC Severity: grave Tag ...
Jeriko One discovered that newsbeuter, a text-mode RSS feed reader, did not properly escape the title and description of a news article when bookmarking it This allowed a remote attacker to run an arbitrary shell command on the client machine For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 28-2+deb8u1 For the sta ...