CVE-2009-4273
critical
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
10.0
Description
stap-server in SystemTap before 1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in stap command-line arguments in a request.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Exploits
Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.
Exploit-DB
SystemTap 1.0 - 'stat-server' Arbitrary Command Injection
Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1.1-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 1.1-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 1.1-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1.1-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1.1-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| systemtap | systemtap | 0.4 | |
| systemtap | systemtap | 0.9.7 | |
| systemtap | systemtap | 0.5.4 | |
| systemtap | systemtap | 0.5.9 | |
| systemtap | systemtap | 0.9.8 | |
| systemtap | systemtap | 0.5 | |
| systemtap | systemtap | 0.8 | |
| systemtap | systemtap | 0.3 | |
| systemtap | systemtap | 0.5.7 | |
| systemtap | systemtap | 0.5.13 | |
| systemtap | systemtap | 0.9.5 | |
| systemtap | systemtap | {"endIncluding":"1.0"} | |
| systemtap | systemtap | 0.5.10 | |
| systemtap | systemtap | 0.2.2 | |
| systemtap | systemtap | 0.5.5 | |
| systemtap | systemtap | 0.6 | |
| systemtap | systemtap | 0.6.2 | |
| systemtap | systemtap | 0.7.2 | |
| systemtap | systemtap | 0.5.8 | |
| systemtap | systemtap | 0.5.14 | |
| systemtap | systemtap | 0.9 | |
| systemtap | systemtap | 0.5.3 | |
| systemtap | systemtap | 0.5.12 | |
| systemtap | systemtap | 0.7 | |
| systemtap | systemtap | 0.9.9 | |
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035201.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035261.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/034036.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/034041.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/scm-commits/2010-February/394714.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-04/msg00006.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38154
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38216
- http://secunia.com/advisories/38765
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39656
- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11105
- http://sourceware.org/ml/systemtap/2010-q1/msg00142.html
- http://sourceware.org/systemtap/ftp/releases/systemtap-1.1.tar.gz
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0124.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0169
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1001
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=550172
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11417
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2009-4273
CWEs
CWE-94
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.