CVE-2017-9800

Public on 2017-08-11
Modified on 2017-08-31
Description
A shell command injection flaw related to the handling of "svn+ssh" URLs has been discovered in Subversion. An attacker could use this flaw to execute shell commands with the privileges of the user running the Subversion client, for example when performing a "checkout" or "update" action on a malicious repository, or a legitimate repository containing a malicious commit.
Severity
Important severity
Important
CVSS v3 Base Score
6.3
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 mod_dav_svn 2017-08-31 ALAS-2017-883 Fixed
Amazon Linux 1 subversion 2017-08-31 ALAS-2017-883 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 6.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD CVSSv2 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H