C-Kermit before 11.1.515 contains an OS command injection vulnerability that allows remote clients to execute shell commands by supplying unquoted arguments to REMOTE WHO or REMOTE SPACE. Attackers can append shell metacharacters to arguments passed through WHOCMD or SPACM2 to syscmd(), executing commands on the server host even when DISABLE HOST is set.
https://github.com/OpenKermit/ckermit/security/advisories/GHSA-c5px-7h4c-gj8p
https://github.com/OpenKermit/ckermit/releases/tag/v11.1.515
https://github.com/OpenKermit/ckermit/commit/29c4bfbe12d685f93668350c24291e562029ff57
https://github.com/OpenKermit/ckermit/blob/v11.0.514/ckcpro.w#L1423
Published: 2026-11-13
Updated: 2026-11-13
Base Score: 7.6
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Severity: High
Base Score: 8.1
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity: High
Base Score: 9.2
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Severity: Critical
EPSS: 0.01316