VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2017-15924

high
Published 2017-10-27 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.8

Description

In manager.c in ss-manager in shadowsocks-libev 3.1.0, improper parsing allows command injection via shell metacharacters in a JSON configuration request received via 127.0.0.1 UDP traffic, related to the add_server, build_config, and construct_command_line functions.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—

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 with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
debian debian9.2affected
debian debianbookwormfixed3.1.0+ds-2
debian debianbullseyefixed3.1.0+ds-2
debian debianforkyfixed3.1.0+ds-2
debian debiansidfixed3.1.0+ds-2
debian debiantrixiefixed3.1.0+ds-2

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev1.3
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev1.3.2
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev1.4.0
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev1.4.1
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev1.4.2
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev1.4.3
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev1.4.4
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev1.4.5
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev1.4.6
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev1.4.7
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev1.4.8
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev1.5.0
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev1.5.1
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev1.5.2
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev1.5.3
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev1.6.1
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev1.6.2
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev1.6.3
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev1.6.4
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.0.1
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.0.2
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.0.3
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.0.4
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.0.5
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.0.6
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.0.7
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.0.8
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.1.0
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.1.1
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.1.2
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.1.3
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.1.4
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.2.0
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.2.1
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.2.2
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.2.3
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.3.0
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.3.1
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.3.2
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.3.3
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.4.0
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.4.1
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.4.2
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.4.3
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.4.4
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.4.5
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.4.6
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.4.7
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.4.8
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.5.0
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.5.1
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.5.2
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.5.3
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.5.4
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.5.5
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.5.6
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.6.0
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.6.1
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.6.2
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev2.6.3
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev3.0.0
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev3.0.1
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev3.0.2
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev3.0.3
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev3.0.4
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev3.0.5
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev3.0.6
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev3.0.7
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev3.0.8
shadowsocksshadowsocks-libev3.1.0

References

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.