PT-2014-3425 · Canto · Canto Curses

The_Walrus_88 · Published 2014-12-03 · Updated 2017-09-08 · CVE-2013-7416

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Canto Curses versions prior to 0.9.0

Description The issue allows remote feed servers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a URL in a feed. This is due to a problem in the canto curses/guibase.py file.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.9.0, update to version 0.9.0 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to feeds from untrusted sources to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Exploit

Fix

Command Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-77

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-7416

Affected Products

Canto Curses

References · 7

• 🔥 https://github.com/themoken/canto-curses/commit/2817869f98c54975f31e2dd674c1aefa70749cca · Exploit
• 🔥 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/832 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/826 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-7416 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98947 · Note
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=731582 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/71323 · Note