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Fencer Vulns
high 7.8

CVE-2017-9274 json

osc executes spec code during "osc commit"

published 2018-03-01 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-18210

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.3%
EPSS 2.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 83%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A shell command injection in the obs-service-source_validator before 0.7 could be used to execute code as the packager when checking RPM SPEC files with specific macro constructs.

Patch / fix

  • SUSE obs-service-source_validator 0.7
  • osc Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.162.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9274

  • osc SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 0.162.1-7.4.1
  • build SLE Software Development Kit 11 SP4 20171128-8.3.3
  • osc SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP3, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP2 0.162.0-15.3.1
  • build SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP3, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP2 20171128-9.3.2
  • obs-service-source_validator SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP3, SLE Software Development Kit 12 SP2 0.7-9.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2018:0065-1SUSE-SU-2017:3253-1

  • obs-service-source_validator openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.21-1.3

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:11106-1

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-2017-9274 updated cvss 7.8

osc: Macro expansion can lead to arbitray code execution

  • 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

2.31% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 83% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 9.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected products

  • SUSE obs-service-source_validator

Classification

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

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.