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CVE-2008-4641

Date: October 21, 2008

The DoCommand function in jhead.c in Matthias Wandel jhead 2.84 and earlier allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in unspecified input.

Severity Score

9.8

Related Resources (9)

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2008-4641

Url: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/jhead/+bug/271020

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4641

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31921

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/26/4

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/15/6

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/16/3

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/10/15/5

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-4641

Severity Score

9.8

Weakness Type (CWE)

Input Validation

CWE-20

Insufficient Information

NVD-CWE-noinfo

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	9.8
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	10.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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