CVEvulnerability
CVE-2008-3907
6.8 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2008-09-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-20
Description
The open-in-browser command in newsbeuter before 1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a feed URL.
Affected configurations
• newsbeuter newsbeuter (<= 1.0)
• newsbeuter newsbeuter 0.1.1
• newsbeuter newsbeuter 0.2
• 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
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- http://newsbeuter.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/newsbeuter-11-released-contains-security-fix-please-upgrade/ newsbeuter.wordpress.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31676 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31995 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-12.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.newsbeuter.org/downloads/CHANGES www.newsbeuter.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/01/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30964 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44791 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://newsbeuter.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/newsbeuter-11-released-contains-security-fix-please-upgrade/ newsbeuter.wordpress.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31676 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31995 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-12.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.newsbeuter.org/downloads/CHANGES www.newsbeuter.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/01/4 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30964 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44791 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com