VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-12904

high
Published 2017-08-23 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
8.8

Description

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command in bookmarking function of Newsbeuter versions 0.7 through 2.9 allows remote attackers to perform user-assisted code execution by crafting an RSS item that includes shell code in its title and/or URL.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
debian Debian Affected 3 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
9.0 Affected —
8.0 Affected —
7.0 Affected —

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
newsbeuternewsbeuter0.7
newsbeuternewsbeuter0.8
newsbeuternewsbeuter0.8.1
newsbeuternewsbeuter0.8.2
newsbeuternewsbeuter0.9
newsbeuternewsbeuter0.9.1
newsbeuternewsbeuter1.0
newsbeuternewsbeuter1.1
newsbeuternewsbeuter1.2
newsbeuternewsbeuter1.3
newsbeuternewsbeuter2.0
newsbeuternewsbeuter2.1
newsbeuternewsbeuter2.2
newsbeuternewsbeuter2.3
newsbeuternewsbeuter2.4
newsbeuternewsbeuter2.5
newsbeuternewsbeuter2.6
newsbeuternewsbeuter2.7
newsbeuternewsbeuter2.8
newsbeuternewsbeuter2.9

References

CWEs

CWE-943

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

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