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Shell Command Injection Affecting org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils package, versions [,3.0.16)

0.0
critical

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.4% (74th percentile)
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NVD
9.8 critical
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Red Hat
7.8 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGCODEHAUSPLEXUS-31522
  • published 20 Sep 2016
  • disclosed 8 May 2016
  • credit Charles Duffy
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Introduced: 8 May 2016

CVE-2017-1000487 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-77 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Codehaus Plexus to version 3.0.16 or higher.

Overview

Codehaus Plexus is a collection of components used by Apache Maven.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Shell Command Injection. The Commandline class in plexus-utils does not correctly quote the contents of double-quoted strings.