RCE in Netatalk

CVE-2008-5718

The papd daemon in Netatalk before 2.0.4-beta2, when using certain variables in a pipe command for the print file, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a print request, as demonstrated using a crafted Title.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.045 (90.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Netatalk — versions 1.4.99-0.20000927, 1.4.99-0.20001108, 1.5
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References