CVE-2008-2575

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-06-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-78

Description

cbrPager before 0.9.17 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a (1) ZIP (aka .cbz) or (2) RAR (aka .cbr) archive filename.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 7, 8, 9
Jcoppens Cbrpager: before 0.9.17 — fixed in 0.9.17

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Jcoppens Cbrpager 0.9.17. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/cbrpager/devel/cbrpager-0.9.16-filen-shell-escaping.patch?rev=1.2
http://secunia.com/advisories/30417
http://secunia.com/advisories/30438
http://secunia.com/advisories/30701
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200806-05.xml
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=827120
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=601538&group_id=119647
http://www.jcoppens.com/soft/cbrpager/log.en.php
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1693/references
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448285
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42741
http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/cbrpager/devel/cbrpager-0.9.16-filen-shell-escaping.patch?rev=1.2

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