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CVE-2017-12904

high
Published 2017-08-23 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
8.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
VIR risk
8.8

Description

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command in bookmarking function of Newsbeuter versions 0.7 through 2.9 allows remote attackers to perform user-assisted code execution by crafting an RSS item that includes shell code in its title and/or URL.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
92%
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
debian debian7.0affected
debian debian8.0affected
debian debian9.0affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
newsbeuternewsbeuter0.7
newsbeuternewsbeuter0.8
newsbeuternewsbeuter0.8.1
newsbeuternewsbeuter0.8.2
newsbeuternewsbeuter0.9
newsbeuternewsbeuter0.9.1
newsbeuternewsbeuter1.0
newsbeuternewsbeuter1.1
newsbeuternewsbeuter1.2
newsbeuternewsbeuter1.3
newsbeuternewsbeuter2.0
newsbeuternewsbeuter2.1
newsbeuternewsbeuter2.2
newsbeuternewsbeuter2.3
newsbeuternewsbeuter2.4
newsbeuternewsbeuter2.5
newsbeuternewsbeuter2.6
newsbeuternewsbeuter2.7
newsbeuternewsbeuter2.8
newsbeuternewsbeuter2.9

References

CWEs

CWE-943

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