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CVE-2017-6200

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-02-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-200

Description

Sandstorm before build 0.203 allows remote attackers to read any specified file under /etc or /run via the sandbox backup function. The root cause is that the findFilesToZip function doesn't filter Line Feed (\n) characters in a directory name.

Affected products

• Sandstorm: before 0.203 — fixed in 0.203

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Sandstorm 0.203. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://devco.re/blog/2018/01/26/Sandstorm-Security-Review-CVE-2017-6200-en/
• https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/blob/v0.202/src/sandstorm/backup.c%2B%2B#L271
• https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/commit/4ea8df7403381d9b657b121b3c98d8081b27414d
• https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/commit/6e8572ea8bb56d0216bb1b410e5040edc051b120
• https://sandstorm.io/news/2017-03-02-security-review
• https://devco.re/blog/2018/01/26/Sandstorm-Security-Review-CVE-2017-6200-en/
• https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/blob/v0.202/src/sandstorm/backup.c%2B%2B#L271
• https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/commit/4ea8df7403381d9b657b121b3c98d8081b27414d
• https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/commit/6e8572ea8bb56d0216bb1b410e5040edc051b120
• https://sandstorm.io/news/2017-03-02-security-review

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