What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities
CVE-2017-8799
- Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2017-05-05 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-78
Description
Untrusted input execution via igetwild in all iRODS versions before 4.1.11 and 4.2.1 allows other iRODS users (potentially anonymous) to execute remote shell commands via iRODS virtual pathnames. To exploit this vulnerability, a virtual iRODS pathname that includes a semicolon would be retrieved via igetwild. Because igetwild is a Bash script, the part of the pathname following the semicolon would be executed in the user's shell.
Affected products
- Irods: through 4.1.10; 4.2.0
References
Get alerted when CVE-2017-8799 or the next vulnerability affects your stack