CVE-2014-8170

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-09-26 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-134

Description

ovirt_safe_delete_config in ovirtfunctions.py and other unspecified locations in ovirt-node 3.0.0-474-gb852fd7 as packaged in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 do not properly quote input strings, which allows remote authenticated users and physically proximate attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a ; (semicolon) in an input string.

Affected products

Ovirt-Node: 3.0.0-474-gb852fd7

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1194745
https://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=ovirt-node.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=src/ovirtnode/ovirtfunctions.py%3Bh=caef7ef019ca12b49aa3c030792538956fb4caad%3Bhb=e11e02cd9256c854dd0419515097637d6829b4f1#l1091
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1194745
https://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=ovirt-node.git%3Ba=blob%3Bf=src/ovirtnode/ovirtfunctions.py%3Bh=caef7ef019ca12b49aa3c030792538956fb4caad%3Bhb=e11e02cd9256c854dd0419515097637d6829b4f1#l1091

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