CVE-2009-4273

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 17.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2010-01-26 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

stap-server in SystemTap before 1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in stap command-line arguments in a request.

Affected products

Systemtap: through 1.0; 0.2.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.5.3, 0.5.4 (+18)

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035201.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-February/035261.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/034036.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-January/034041.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/scm-commits/2010-February/394714.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-04/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/38154
http://secunia.com/advisories/38216
http://secunia.com/advisories/38765
http://secunia.com/advisories/39656
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11105
http://sourceware.org/ml/systemtap/2010-q1/msg00142.html

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