CVE-2017-16926 - Ohcount 3.0.0 is prone to a command injection via specially crafted filenames containing shell metacharacters, which can be exploited by an attacker (providing a source tree for Ohcount processing) to execute arbitrary code as the user running Ohcount

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CRITICAL

Ohcount 3.0.0 is prone to a command injection via specially crafted filenames containing shell metacharacters, which can be exploited by an attacker (providing a source tree for Ohcount processing) to execute arbitrary code as the user running Ohcount

Published Nov 22, 2017

9.8

CRITICAL

CVSS 3.0

EPSS 5.58%

Description

Ohcount 3.0.0 is prone to a command injection via specially crafted filenames containing shell metacharacters, which can be exploited by an attacker (providing a source tree for Ohcount processing) to execute arbitrary code as the user running Ohcount.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-78

OS Command Injection

References (1)

https://bugs.debian.org/882372
x_refsource_MISCExploitVendor Advisory

Link	Providers	Tags
https://bugs.debian.org/882372		x_refsource_MISCExploitVendor Advisory

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Nov 22, 2017

Updated Aug 5, 2024

Reserved Nov 22, 2017

Link CVE-2017-16926

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 17, 2026

Link CVE-2017-16926

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2017-16926