CVE-2016-6903
critical
CVSS v3
9.9
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
9.9
Description
lshell 0.9.16 allows remote authenticated users to break out of a limited shell and execute arbitrary commands.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
98%
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.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| lshell_project | lshell | 0.9.16 | |
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/22/17
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92591
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=834946
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1369345
- https://github.com/ghantoos/lshell/commit/e72dfcd1f258193f9aaea3591ecbdaed207661a0
- https://github.com/ghantoos/lshell/issues/149
- https://github.com/ghantoos/lshell/pull/153/commits/a686f71732a3d0f16df52ef46ab8a49ee0083c68
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/22/17
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92591
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=834946
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1369345
- https://github.com/ghantoos/lshell/commit/e72dfcd1f258193f9aaea3591ecbdaed207661a0
- https://github.com/ghantoos/lshell/issues/149
- https://github.com/ghantoos/lshell/pull/153/commits/a686f71732a3d0f16df52ef46ab8a49ee0083c68
CWEs
CWE-264
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.