CVE-2016-2942 Command injection in UrbanCode Deploy

What is CVE-2016-2942?

CVE-2016-2942 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Ibm Urbancode Deploy, published on 1 Feb 2017. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

IBM UrbanCode Deploy could allow an authenticated attacker with special permissions to craft a script on the server in a way that will cause processes to run on a remote UCD agent machine.

Weakness: CWE-284

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-2942?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Ibm Urbancode Deploy.

How do I fix CVE-2016-2942?

No fix has been published for CVE-2016-2942 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

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

Is CVE-2016-2942 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-2942 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Ibm Urbancode Deploy

• CVE-2016-8938 File upload in UrbanCode Deploy Critical 10.0
• CVE-2014-8900 Cross-site request forgery in n/a High 8.8
• CVE-2020-4481 XML external entity in UrbanCode Deploy High 8.2
• CVE-2016-0271 Auth bypass in n/a High 8.2
• CVE-2017-1149 XML external entity in UrbanCode Deploy High 8.1

All Ibm Urbancode Deploy vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-mr5v-83xw-vqxr.