CVE-2017-14500
Description
Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command in the podcast playback function of Podbeuter in Newsbeuter 0.3 through 2.9 allows remote attackers to perform user-assisted code execution by crafting an RSS item with a media enclosure (i.e., a podcast file) that includes shell metacharacters in its filename, related to pb_controller.cpp and queueloader.cpp, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-12904.
Predictions
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| newsbeuter | newsbeuter | 0.3 | |
| newsbeuter | newsbeuter | 0.4 | |
| newsbeuter | newsbeuter | 0.5 | |
| newsbeuter | newsbeuter | 0.6 | |
| newsbeuter | newsbeuter | 0.7 | |
| newsbeuter | newsbeuter | 0.8 | |
| newsbeuter | newsbeuter | 0.8.1 | |
| newsbeuter | newsbeuter | 0.8.2 | |
| newsbeuter | newsbeuter | 0.9 | |
| newsbeuter | newsbeuter | 0.9.1 | |
| newsbeuter | newsbeuter | 1.0 | |
| newsbeuter | newsbeuter | 1.1 | |
| newsbeuter | newsbeuter | 1.2 | |
| newsbeuter | newsbeuter | 1.3 | |
| newsbeuter | newsbeuter | 2.0 | |
| newsbeuter | newsbeuter | 2.1 | |
| newsbeuter | newsbeuter | 2.2 | |
| newsbeuter | newsbeuter | 2.3 | |
| newsbeuter | newsbeuter | 2.4 | |
| newsbeuter | newsbeuter | 2.5 | |
| newsbeuter | newsbeuter | 2.6 | |
| newsbeuter | newsbeuter | 2.7 | |
| newsbeuter | newsbeuter | 2.8 | |
| newsbeuter | newsbeuter | 2.9 | |
References
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/09/16/1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3977
- https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/commit/26f5a4350f3ab5507bb8727051c87bb04660f333
- https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/commit/c8fea2f60c18ed30bdd1bb6f798e994e51a58260
- https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/issues/598
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4585-1/
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/09/16/1
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3977
- https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/commit/26f5a4350f3ab5507bb8727051c87bb04660f333
- https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/commit/c8fea2f60c18ed30bdd1bb6f798e994e51a58260
- https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/issues/598
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4585-1/
CWEs
CWE-78
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.