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CVE-2011-3180

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 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: 2014-04-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

kiwi before 4.98.08, as used in SUSE Studio Onsite 1.2 before 1.2.1 and SUSE Studio Extension for System z 1.2 before 1.2.1, allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the path of an overlay file, related to chown.

Affected products

• SUSE Kiwi: through 4.98.07
• SUSE Studio Extension For System Z: 1.2
• SUSE Studio onsite: 1.2

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-12/msg00015.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/02/4
• https://github.com/openSUSE/kiwi/commit/f0f74b3f6ac6d47f7919aa9db380c0ad41ffe55f#
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-12/msg00015.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/02/4
• https://github.com/openSUSE/kiwi/commit/f0f74b3f6ac6d47f7919aa9db380c0ad41ffe55f#

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