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CVE-2017-1000203

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-11-17 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

ROOT version 6.9.03 and below is vulnerable to an authenticated shell metacharacter injection in the rootd daemon resulting in remote code execution

Affected products

• CERN Root: through 6.9.03

References

• https://github.com/root-project/root/commit/88ccff152604e0f1012653a596d802ff7ede3145#diff-6cd6f6c31bac70116b7ca7abdc8e517e
• https://github.com/root-project/root/commit/88ccff152604e0f1012653a596d802ff7ede3145#diff-6cd6f6c31bac70116b7ca7abdc8e517e

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