CVE-2018-16741

An issue was discovered in mgetty before 1.2.1

published September 13, 2018

CVSS
—
EPSS
1%
Percentile
70.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An issue was discovered in mgetty before 1.2.1. In fax/faxq-helper.c, the function do_activate() does not properly sanitize shell metacharacters to prevent command injection. It is possible to use the ||, &&, or > characters within a file created by the "faxq-helper activate <jobid>" command.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01323 · 70.7th percentile
Published
2018-09-13T16:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 13 SEP 16:00Z
    An issue was discovered in mgetty before 1.2.1
    cvelistv5