CVE-2015-9059

critical
Published 2017-05-28 · 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

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debianbookwormfixed1.7-2
debian debianbullseyefixed1.7-2
debian debianforkyfixed1.7-2
debian debiansidfixed1.7-2
debian debiantrixiefixed1.7-2

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
picocom_projectpicocom{"endIncluding":"1.8"}

References

CWEs

CWE-77

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

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