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CVE-2008-2575

critical

Description

cbrPager before 0.9.17 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a (1) ZIP (aka .cbz) or (2) RAR (aka .cbr) archive filename.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42741

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448285

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200806-05.xml

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2008-2570

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1693/references

http://www.jcoppens.com/soft/cbrpager/log.en.php

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=601538&group_id=119647

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=827120

http://secunia.com/advisories/30701

http://secunia.com/advisories/30438

http://secunia.com/advisories/30417

http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/cbrpager/devel/cbrpager-0.9.16-filen-shell-escaping.patch?rev=1.2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2008-06-06

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

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

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.02645