What is CVE-2017-16926?

CVE-2017-16926 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Ohcount Project, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-11-22.

How severe is CVE-2017-16926?

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

RCE in Ohcount Project

CVE-2017-16926

Ohcount 3.0.0 is prone to a command injection via specially crafted filenames containing shell metacharacters, which can be exploited by an attacker (providing a source tree for Ohcount processing) to execute arbitrary code as the user running Ohcount.

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.056 (92.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Ohcount_project Ohcount — versions 3.0.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-78 — OS Command Injection

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-16926?: CVE-2017-16926 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Ohcount Project, classified under OS Command Injection. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2017-11-22.
How severe is CVE-2017-16926?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.