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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2017-1000487 json

OS Command Injection in Plexus-utils

published 2018-01-03 8 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-8vhq-qq4p-grq3 , EUVD-2022-3243

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.5%
EPSS 6.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Plexus-utils before 3.0.16 is vulnerable to command injection because it does not correctly process the contents of double quoted strings.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils 3.0.16
  • codehaus-plexus plexus-utils 3.0.16
  • plexus-utils2 Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.0.22-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-1000487

  • plexus-utils Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1:1.5.15-4+deb8u1build0.14.04.1
  • plexus-utils Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1:1.5.15-4+deb8u1build0.16.04.1
  • plexus-utils2 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 2.0.5-1+deb7u1build0.14.04.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-1000487

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2017-1000487 updated cvss 7.8

plexus-utils: Mishandled strings in Commandline class allow for command injection

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 plexus-utils, plexus-utils-javadoc
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6 plexus-utils plexus-utils
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 plexus-utils plexus-utils Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty) opendaylight Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) opendaylight
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 8 plexus-utils plexus-utils Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 10 plexus-utils plexus-utils Red Hat JBoss Portal 6 plexus-utils plexus-utils
    under investigation
  • Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.3 Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2018:1322
  • Red Hat BPM Suite 6 plexus-utils plexus-utils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 plexus-utils, plexus-utils-javadoc, plexus-utils plexus-utils Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 plexus-utils plexus-utils Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 plexus-utils plexus-utils Red Hat Satellite 6 plexus-utils Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 rh-sso7-keycloak rh-sso7-keycloak
    +1 more products
    Red Hat Software Collections rh-maven33-plexus-utils, rh-maven35-plexus-utils, rh-maven33-plexus-utils-javadoc, rh-maven35-plexus-utils-javadoc
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

6.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utils
<3.0.16
3.0.16

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command

References

Sources

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