CVE-2015-8212

critical
Published 2017-01-19 ยท Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

Description

CGI handling flaw in bozohttpd in NetBSD 6.0 through 6.0.6, 6.1 through 6.1.5, and 7.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted arguments, which are handled by a non-CGI aware program.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

freebsd FreeBSD Affected 14 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
7.0 Affected โ€”
6.1.5 Affected โ€”
6.1.4 Affected โ€”
6.1.3 Affected โ€”
6.1.2 Affected โ€”
6.1.1 Affected โ€”
6.1 Affected โ€”
6.0.6 Affected โ€”
6.0.5 Affected โ€”
6.0.4 Affected โ€”
6.0.3 Affected โ€”
6.0.2 Affected โ€”
6.0.1 Affected โ€”
6.0 Affected โ€”

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.