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high 7.8

CVE-2017-15108 json

spice-vdagent up to and including 0.17.0 does not properly escape save directory before passing to shell, allowing local attacker with acce…

published 2018-01-20 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-6573

cvss
7.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 36%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

spice-vdagent up to and including 0.17.0 does not properly escape save directory before passing to shell, allowing local attacker with access to the session the agent runs in to inject arbitrary commands to be executed.

Patch / fix

  • spice-vdagent Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.18.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15108

  • spice-vdagent Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 0.17.0-1ubuntu2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15108

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • spice-vdagent SLES for SAP 12 SP3, SLES for SAP 12 SP2, SLES for Raspberry Pi 12 SP2 +4 more 0.16.0-8.5.15

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:0372-1

  • spice-vdagent openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.21.0-1.7

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11399-1

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-2017-15108 updated cvss 6.5

spice-vdagent: Improper validation of xfers->save_dir in vdagent_file_xfers_data()

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 spice-vdagent Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 spice-vdagent
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

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

0.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 36% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Red Hat, Inc. spice-vdagent

Classification

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

References

Sources

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