CVE-2017-15108 Command injection in spice-vdagent

What is CVE-2017-15108?

CVE-2017-15108 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 20 Jan 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

spice-vdagent up to and including 0.17.0 does not properly escape save directory before passing to shell, allowing local attacker with access to the session the agent runs in to inject arbitrary commands to be executed.

Weakness: CWE-78

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-15108?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Spice-Space Spice-Vdagent.

How do I fix CVE-2017-15108?

Apply the vendor's patch.

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

Is CVE-2017-15108 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-15108 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-2017-15108, GHSA-rx22-vq3w-89rg, MGASA-2019-0032, SUSE-SU-2018:0372-1, UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15108.