CVE-2014-8517

50Vexday Risk Score

Patch soon. It has a working public exploit.

ssvc Attendepss 69%

from disclosure to weapon15 days

Published on NVDNov 17

1st PoC+15d

metasploitOct 28

exploitation probability

69%top 1% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

3 public exploit(s)

The fetch_url function in usr.bin/ftp/fetch.c in tnftp, as used in NetBSD 5.1 through 5.1.4, 5.2 through 5.2.2, 6.0 through 6.0.6, and 6.1 through 6.1.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a | (pipe) character at the end of an HTTP redirect.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 3✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/43112 exploitdbwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/35427unverified cve_referencewww.exploit-db.com/exploits/43112/unverified

⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.

References

http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2014-013.txt.asc http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Jan/msg00003.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-11/msg00029.html http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/459 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/464 http://secunia.com/advisories/62028 http://secunia.com/advisories/62260 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-05 http://support.apple.com/HT204244 https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/43112/