CVE-2017-16926

critical

Published 2017-11-22 · 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

Ohcount 3.0.0 is prone to a command injection via specially crafted filenames containing shell metacharacters, which can be exploited by an attacker (providing a source tree for Ohcount processing) to execute arbitrary code as the user running Ohcount.

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-2017-16926

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://bugs.debian.org/882372

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`3.1.0-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`3.1.0-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`3.1.0-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`3.1.0-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
ohcount_project	ohcount	`3.0.0`

References

https://bugs.debian.org/882372
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-16926

CWEs

CWE-78

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