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C-Kermit before 11.1.515 OS Command Injection via REMOTE WHO and REMOTE SPACE

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Severity
critical
Date
Affecting

  • C-Kermit >= 0, < 11.1.515

CWE
  • CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')
CVSS
9.2
CVSS V4 Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Credit
John Goerzen, John Goerzen
Description
C-Kermit before 11.1.515 contains an OS command injection vulnerability that allows remote clients to execute shell commands by supplying unquoted arguments to REMOTE WHO or REMOTE SPACE. Attackers can append shell metacharacters to arguments passed through WHOCMD or SPACM2 to syscmd(), executing commands on the server host even when DISABLE HOST is set.

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