RCE in Red Hat, Inc. Spice-Vdagent
CVE-2017-15108
spice-vdagent up to and including 0.17.0 does not properly escape save directory before passing to shell, allowing local attacker with access to the session the agent runs in to inject arbitrary commands to be executed.
Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (33.8th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 34th percentile — 33.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Red Hat, Inc. Spice-Vdagent — versions up to and including 0.17.0
- Spice-Space Spice-Vdagent
- Debian Linux — versions 9.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-09 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/linux/vd_agent/commit/ (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00012.html (mailing-list, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2017-15108?
- CVE-2017-15108 is a high-severity vulnerability in Red Hat, Inc. Spice-Vdagent, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2018-01-20.
- How severe is CVE-2017-15108?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2017-15108 known to be exploited?
- 2 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.