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CVE-2017-15924

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-10-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

In manager.c in ss-manager in shadowsocks-libev 3.1.0, improper parsing allows command injection via shell metacharacters in a JSON configuration request received via 127.0.0.1 UDP traffic, related to the add_server, build_config, and construct_command_line functions.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.2
• Shadowsocks: 1.3, 1.3.2, 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3 (+64)

References

• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/10/13/2
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4009
• https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-libev/commit/c67d275803dc6ea22c558d06b1f7ba9f94cd8de3
• https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-libev/issues/1734
• https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2017-010-shadowsocks-libev/
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/10/13/2
• http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4009
• https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-libev/commit/c67d275803dc6ea22c558d06b1f7ba9f94cd8de3
• https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-libev/issues/1734
• https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2017-010-shadowsocks-libev/

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