CVE-2018-0643 Command injection in Ubuntu14.04 ORCA(Online Receipt Computer Advantage)4.8.0(panda-server) 1:1.4.9+p41-u4jma1 and earlier

What is CVE-2018-0643?

CVE-2018-0643 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 7 Sep 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Ubuntu14.04 ORCA (Online Receipt Computer Advantage) 4.8.0 (panda-server) 1:1.4.9+p41-u4jma1 and earlier allows attacker with administrator rights to execute arbitrary OS commands via unspecified vectors.

Weakness: CWE-78

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-0643?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Orcamo Online Receipt Computer Advantage.

How do I fix CVE-2018-0643?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-0643 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-2018-0643 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-0643 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 GHSA-cvwr-hpvw-jmx6.