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CVE-2017-17562

high · 8.1Actively exploited

On the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

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Added 2021-12-10Remediation due 2022-06-10

A public exploit / detection template exists

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Embedthis GoAhead before 3.6.5 allows remote code execution if CGI is enabled and a CGI program is dynamically linked. This is a result of initializing the environment of forked CGI scripts using untrusted HTTP request parameters in the cgiHandler function in cgi.c. When combined with the glibc dynamic linker, this behaviour can be abused for remote code execution using special parameter names such as LD_PRELOAD. An attacker can POST their shared object payload in the body of the request, and reference it using /proc/self/fd/0.

8.1
CVSS
96.3%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
100th
EPSS percentile
2017-12-12
Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
embedthisgoahead< 3.6.5
oracleintegrated_lights_out_manager3.0
oracleintegrated_lights_out_manager4.0

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References

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