CVE-2020-24916 Command injection in n/a

What is CVE-2020-24916?

CVE-2020-24916 is a critical command injection vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 9 Sep 2020. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

CGI implementation in Yaws web server versions 1.81 to 2.0.7 is vulnerable to OS command injection.

Weakness: CWE-78

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-24916?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Yaws Yaws.

How do I fix CVE-2020-24916?

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-2020-24916 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-24916 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-24916, GHSA-962f-382j-8f7x, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-24916.