CRITICAL SEVERITY

CVE-2017-9736

Spip vulnerability

CVSS
9.8
EPSS
3.2%
EPSS pct
87th
Exploited
No known
SPIP 3.1.x before 3.1.6 and 3.2.x before Beta 3 does not remove shell metacharacters from the host field, allowing a remote attacker to cause remote code execution.
Affected vendor
Spip
Affected product
Spip
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-78 — OS Command Injection
Published
2017-06-17

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

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  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2017-9736.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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