CVE-2015-4035

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-07-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

scripts/xzgrep.in in xzgrep 5.2.x before 5.2.0, before 5.0.0 does not properly process file names containing semicolons, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by having a user run xzgrep on a crafted file name.

Affected products

tukaani-project xz: through 4.999.9

References

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q2/484
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/19/13
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1223341
https://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=f4b2b52624b802c786e4e2a8eb6895794dd93b24
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q2/484
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/05/19/13
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1223341
https://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=f4b2b52624b802c786e4e2a8eb6895794dd93b24

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