Shell Command Injection Affecting org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils package, versions [,3.0.16)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.4% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGCODEHAUSPLEXUS-31522
  • published 20 Sep 2016
  • disclosed 8 May 2016
  • credit Charles Duffy

How to fix?

Upgrade Codehaus Plexus to version 3.0.16 or higher.

Overview

Codehaus Plexus is a collection of components used by Apache Maven.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Shell Command Injection. The Commandline class in plexus-utils does not correctly quote the contents of double-quoted strings.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
9.8 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

9.8 critical