VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-16926

CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability5.58%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-11-22
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Description

Ohcount 3.0.0 is prone to a command injection via specially crafted filenames containing shell metacharacters, which can be exploited by an attacker (providing a source tree for Ohcount processing) to execute arbitrary code as the user running Ohcount.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-78: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

Primary references