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CVE-2018-16741

Date: September 13, 2018

An issue was discovered in mgetty before 1.2.1. In fax/faxq-helper.c, the function do_activate() does not properly sanitize shell metacharacters to prevent command injection. It is possible to use the ||, &&, or > characters within a file created by the "faxq-helper activate <jobid>" command.

Severity Score

Related Resources (8)

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-16741
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16741
https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2018-007-mgetty
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4291
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-16741
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00012.html
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16741
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2018-16741

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

OS Command Injections

CWE-78

CVSS v3.1

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

CVSS v2

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