Arbitrary Command Injection Affecting shadowsocks/shadowsocks-libev package, versions [1.3,3.1.0]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-SHADOWSOCKSSHADOWSOCKSLIBEV-2366875
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed27 Oct 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 27 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-15924  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-77  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for shadowsocks/shadowsocks-libev.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Command Injection. In manager.c in ss-manager in shadowsocks-libev 3.1.0, improper parsing allows command injection via shell metacharacters in a JSON configuration request received via 127.0.0.1 UDP traffic, related to the add_server, build_config, and construct_command_line functions.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1