CVE-2017-14500

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-09-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-78

Description

Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command in the podcast playback function of Podbeuter in Newsbeuter 0.3 through 2.9 allows remote attackers to perform user-assisted code execution by crafting an RSS item with a media enclosure (i.e., a podcast file) that includes shell metacharacters in its filename, related to pb_controller.cpp and queueloader.cpp, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-12904.

Affected products

Newsbeuter: 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8 (+18)

References

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/09/16/1
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3977
https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/commit/26f5a4350f3ab5507bb8727051c87bb04660f333
https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/commit/c8fea2f60c18ed30bdd1bb6f798e994e51a58260
https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/issues/598
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4585-1/
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/09/16/1
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3977
https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/commit/26f5a4350f3ab5507bb8727051c87bb04660f333
https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/commit/c8fea2f60c18ed30bdd1bb6f798e994e51a58260
https://github.com/akrennmair/newsbeuter/issues/598
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4585-1/

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