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CVE-2017-1000203

Published: 17 November 2017

ROOT version 6.9.03 and below is vulnerable to an authenticated shell metacharacter injection in the rootd daemon resulting in remote code execution

From the Ubuntu Security Team

It was discovered that ROOT incorrectly certain input arguments. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

8.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
root-system
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
artful Does not exist

bionic Does not exist

cosmic Does not exist

disco Does not exist

eoan Does not exist

focal Does not exist

groovy Does not exist

impish Does not exist

jammy Does not exist

upstream Needed

xenial
Released (5.34.30-0ubuntu8+esm1)
Available with Ubuntu Pro
zesty Does not exist

hirsute Does not exist

trusty
Released (5.34.14-1ubuntu0.1~esm1)
Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 8.8
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H