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CVE-2018-5704

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.6 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2018-01-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-134

Description

Open On-Chip Debugger (OpenOCD) 0.10.0 does not block attempts to use HTTP POST for sending data to 127.0.0.1 port 4444, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-protocol scripting attacks, and consequently execute arbitrary commands, via a crafted web site.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0
• Openocd Open On-Chip Debugger: 0.10.0

References

• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00027.html
• https://sourceforge.net/p/openocd/mailman/message/36188041/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4093
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00027.html
• https://sourceforge.net/p/openocd/mailman/message/36188041/
• https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4093

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