What is CVE-2015-9059?

CVE-2015-9059 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Picocom Project, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-05-28.

How severe is CVE-2015-9059?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

RCE in Picocom Project

CVE-2015-9059

picocom before 2.0 has a command injection vulnerability in the 'send and receive file' command because the command line is executed by /bin/sh unsafely.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

Published 2017-05-28 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.022 (81.6th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 82nd percentile — 81.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.022 · newest: 0.022 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Picocom Project

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-77 — Command Injection

References

github.com/npat-efault/picocom/commit/1ebc60b20fbe9a02436d5cbbf8951714e749ddb1 (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00030.html (mailing-list)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2015-9059?: CVE-2015-9059 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Picocom Project, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-05-28.
How severe is CVE-2015-9059?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.