CVE-2015-0859

high

Published 2015-12-03 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.5

Description

The Debian build procedure for the smokeping package in wheezy before 2.6.8-2+deb7u1 and jessie before 2.6.9-1+deb8u1 does not properly configure the way Apache httpd passes arguments to smokeping_cgi, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted CGI arguments.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	7.0	affected
debian	8.0	affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`2.6.11-2`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`2.6.11-2`
debian	forky	fixed	`2.6.11-2`
debian	sid	fixed	`2.6.11-2`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2.6.11-2`

References

CWEs

CWE-17

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.