CVE-2017-11322
high
CVSS v3
8.2
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
8.2
Description
The chroothole_client executable in UCOPIA Wireless Appliance before 5.1.8 allows remote attackers to gain root privileges via a dollar sign ($) metacharacter in the argument to chroothole_client.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
78%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| ucopia | ucopia_wireless_appliance | {"endIncluding":"5.1.7"} | |
References
- https://sysdream.com/news/lab/2017-09-29-cve-2017-11322-ucopia-wireless-appliance-5-1-8-privileges-escalation/
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42936/
- https://sysdream.com/news/lab/2017-09-29-cve-2017-11322-ucopia-wireless-appliance-5-1-8-privileges-escalation/
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42936/
CWEs
CWE-78
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.