CVE-2007-6610

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-01-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

unp 1.0.12, and other versions before 1.0.14, does not properly escape file names, which might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a filename argument. NOTE: this might only be a vulnerability when unp is invoked by a third party product.

Affected products

Debian Unp: through 1.0.12

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=448437
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203106
http://osvdb.org/42759
http://secunia.com/advisories/28282
http://secunia.com/advisories/28388
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-01.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27182
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=448437
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203106
http://osvdb.org/42759
http://secunia.com/advisories/28282
http://secunia.com/advisories/28388

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