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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.9

CVE-2016-7787 json

A maliciously crafted command line for kdesu can result in the user only seeing part of the commands that will actually get executed as sup…

published 2016-12-23 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-8637

cvss
4.9
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.7%
EPSS 1.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 76%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A maliciously crafted command line for kdesu can result in the user only seeing part of the commands that will actually get executed as super user.

Patch / fix

  • kde-cli-tools Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4:5.8.0-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-7787

  • kde-cli-tools Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 4:5.5.5-0ubuntu1.1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-7787

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

  • kde-cli-tools5 Package Hub 12 SP1 5.5.5-12.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2016:2495-1openSUSE-SU-2016:2498-1

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-2016-7787 updated cvss 7.0

kde-cli-tools: Improper handling of unicode string terminator in kdesu invocation

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    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

1.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 76% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 4.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.