CVE-2017-9800
CRITICALEPSS 97th pctlDescription
A maliciously constructed svn+ssh:// URL would cause Subversion clients before 1.8.19, 1.9.x before 1.9.7, and 1.10.0.x through 1.10.0-alpha3 to run an arbitrary shell command. Such a URL could be generated by a malicious server, by a malicious user committing to a honest server (to attack another user of that server's repositories), or by a proxy server. The vulnerability affects all clients, including those that use file://, http://, and plain (untunneled) svn://.
CVSS v3 Vector
Exploitability
Impact
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Exploit Intelligence
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 97% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/143722/Apache-Subversion-Arbitrary-Code-Execution.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3932
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/540999/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100259
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1039127
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2480
- https://confluence.atlassian.com/sourcetreekb/sourcetree-security-advisory-2017-08-11-933099891.html
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/cb607dc2f13bab9769147759ddccb14a4f9d8e5cdcad5e99c0d03b63%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/d8cf53affd700dfce90bad4968fb8b1dfb69cf7c443052c70398ff76%40%3Ccommits.subversion.apache.org%3E
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-09
- https://subversion.apache.org/security/CVE-2017-9800-advisory.txt
- https://support.apple.com/HT208103
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuoct2020.html
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