CVE-2017-9736

Publication date 17 June 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

High

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8 · Critical

Score breakdown

Description

SPIP 3.1.x before 3.1.6 and 3.2.x before Beta 3 does not remove shell metacharacters from the host field, allowing a remote attacker to cause remote code execution.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
spip 19.10 eoan
Not affected
19.04 disco
Not affected
18.10 cosmic
Not affected
18.04 LTS bionic
Not affected
17.10 artful
Not affected
17.04 zesty Ignored end of life
16.10 yakkety Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Notes

seth-arnold

The patches look like this is a simple black-list functionality but doesn't black-list $() or `` or <() or any other number of shell metacharacters. I expect this is still broken and should use a whitelist of a-z0-9_-.

msalvatore

"SPIP 3.0.x and earlier versions are not affected by this issue."

Patch details

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Package Patch details
spip

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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