CVE-2008-4796 Command injection in n/a

What is CVE-2008-4796?

CVE-2008-4796 is a critical command injection vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 30 Oct 2008. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The _httpsrequest function (Snoopy/Snoopy.class.php) in Snoopy 1.2.3 and earlier, as used in (1) ampache, (2) libphp-snoopy, (3) mahara, (4) mediamate, (5) opendb, (6) pixelpost, and possibly other products, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in https URLs.

Weakness: CWE-78

Which versions are affected by CVE-2008-4796?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Nagios Nagios, Snoopy Project Snoopy, Wordpress Wordpress.

How do I fix CVE-2008-4796?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2008-4796 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2008-4796 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4796, GHSA-g42h-8ph9-jmvx.