CVE-2017-1000215

critical
Published 2017-11-17 · 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
CVSS v2
10.0
VIR risk
9.8

Description

ROOT xrootd version 4.6.0 and below is vulnerable to an unauthenticated shell command injection resulting in remote code execution

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-1000215

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000215.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/commit/befa2e627a5a33a38c92db3e57c07d8246a24acf

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/blob/v4.6.1/docs/ReleaseNotes.txt

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed0
debian debianbullseyefixed0
debian debianforkyfixed0
debian debiansidfixed0
debian debiantrixiefixed0

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
xrootdxrootd{"endIncluding":"4.6.0"}

References

CWEs

CWE-78

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