CVE-2015-8212

critical
Published 2017-01-19 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
VIR risk
9.8

Description

CGI handling flaw in bozohttpd in NetBSD 6.0 through 6.0.6, 6.1 through 6.1.5, and 7.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted arguments, which are handled by a non-CGI aware program.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
freebsd freebsd6.0affected
freebsd freebsd6.0.1affected
freebsd freebsd6.0.2affected
freebsd freebsd6.0.3affected
freebsd freebsd6.0.4affected
freebsd freebsd6.0.5affected
freebsd freebsd6.0.6affected
freebsd freebsd6.1affected
freebsd freebsd6.1.1affected
freebsd freebsd6.1.2affected
freebsd freebsd6.1.3affected
freebsd freebsd6.1.4affected
freebsd freebsd6.1.5affected
freebsd freebsd7.0affected

References

CWEs

CWE-20

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