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Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')

CVE-2023-1277

High
7.8/10

Summary

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in kylin-system-updater up to 1.4.20kord on Ubuntu Kylin. Affected is the function InstallSnap of the component Update Handler. The manipulation leads to command injection. The attack needs to be approached locally. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-222600.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • LOW
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-77 - Command Injection

A command injection attack involves injecting an operating system command through the data input, which gets executed on the host operating system with the privileges of the victimized application. The impact of a command injection attack may range from loss of data confidentiality and integrity to unauthorized remote access to the hosting system. The attack may cause serious data breaches and system takeover.

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  • Published