High severity · published Jan 20, 2018
CVE-2017-15108
spice-vdagent up to and including 0.17.0 does not properly escape save directory before passing to shell, allowing local attacker with access to the session the agent runs in to…
7.8
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
spice-vdagent up to and including 0.17.0 does not properly escape save directory before passing to shell, allowing local attacker with access to the session the agent runs in to inject arbitrary commands to be executed.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 36% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
9.0 · source: NVD
SP
Spice-vdagent · Spice-space
through 0.17.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15108
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-15108
Patch
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/linux/vd_agent/commit/?id=8ba174816d245757e743e636df357910e1d5eb61
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00012.html
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-09
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