Critical severity · published Aug 11, 2020
CVE-2020-17368
Firejail through 0.9.62 mishandles shell metacharacters during use of the --output or --output-stderr option, which may lead to command injection
9.8
CVSS
4.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Firejail through 0.9.62 mishandles shell metacharacters during use of the --output or --output-stderr option, which may lead to command injection.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)4.1% · higher than 91% 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; 10.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
31; 32 · source: NVD
FI
Firejail · Firejail Project
through 0.9.62 · source: NVD
LE
Leap · Opensuse
15.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-17368
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-17368
Mailing List
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00036.html
Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00033.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JFXN3JJG4DIMN4TAHOTKFMS7SGM4EOTR/
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/W66IR5YT4KG464SKEMQN2NP2LGATGEGS/
Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-02
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