OS Command Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ohcount  (opens in a new tab)


Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
1.3% (86th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1904-OHCOUNT-658382
  • published22 Nov 2017
  • disclosed22 Nov 2017

Introduced: 22 Nov 2017

CVE-2017-16926  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-78  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:19.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ohcount package and not the ohcount package as distributed by Ubuntu.

Ohcount 3.0.0 is prone to a command injection via specially crafted filenames containing shell metacharacters, which can be exploited by an attacker (providing a source tree for Ohcount processing) to execute arbitrary code as the user running Ohcount.