CVE-2017-14500

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14500
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-14500.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-14500
Downstream
Published
2017-09-17T05:29:00.193Z
Modified
2025-11-14T05:03:12.293179Z
Severity
  • 8.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command in the podcast playback function of Podbeuter in Newsbeuter 0.3 through 2.9 allows remote attackers to perform user-assisted code execution by crafting an RSS item with a media enclosure (i.e., a podcast file) that includes shell metacharacters in its filename, related to pb_controller.cpp and queueloader.cpp, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-12904.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
Fixed

Affected versions

r2.*

r2.9

Database specific

vanir_signatures

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