CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-2056
8.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-04-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 8.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-77
Description
xymond in Xymon 4.1.x, 4.2.x, and 4.3.x before 4.3.25 allow remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the adduser_name argument in (1) web/useradm.c or (2) web/chpasswd.c.
Affected configurations
• xymon xymon 4.1.0
• xymon xymon 4.1.1
• xymon xymon 4.1.2
• xymon xymon 4.2
• xymon xymon 4.2.0
• xymon xymon 4.2.2
• xymon xymon 4.2.3
• xymon xymon 4.3.0
• xymon xymon 4.3.1
• xymon xymon 4.3.2
• xymon xymon 4.3.3
• xymon xymon 4.3.4
• xymon xymon 4.3.5
• xymon xymon 4.3.6
• xymon xymon 4.3.7
• xymon xymon 4.3.8
• xymon xymon 4.3.9
• xymon xymon 4.3.10
• xymon xymon 4.3.11
• xymon xymon 4.3.12
• xymon xymon 4.3.13
• xymon xymon 4.3.14
• xymon xymon 4.3.15
• xymon xymon 4.3.16
• xymon xymon 4.3.17
• xymon xymon 4.3.18
• xymon xymon 4.3.19
• xymon xymon 4.3.20
• xymon xymon 4.3.21
• xymon xymon 4.3.22
• xymon xymon 4.3.23
• xymon xymon 4.3.24
• debian debian linux 8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command weakness
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135758/Xymon-4.3.x-Buffer-Overflow-Code-Execution-Information-Disclosure.html packetstormsecurity.com
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153620/Xymon-useradm-Command-Execution.html packetstormsecurity.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3495 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/537522/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- https://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/7892/ Patch
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/135758/Xymon-4.3.x-Buffer-Overflow-Code-Execution-Information-Disclosure.html packetstormsecurity.com
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153620/Xymon-useradm-Command-Execution.html packetstormsecurity.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3495 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/537522/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- https://sourceforge.net/p/xymon/code/7892/ Patch