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CVE-2020-17368

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-08-11 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

Firejail through 0.9.62 mishandles shell metacharacters during use of the --output or --output-stderr option, which may lead to command injection.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 9.0, 10.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 31, 32
• Firejail Project Firejail: through 0.9.62
• openSUSE Leap: 15.2

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00036.html
• https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00033.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JFXN3JJG4DIMN4TAHOTKFMS7SGM4EOTR/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/W66IR5YT4KG464SKEMQN2NP2LGATGEGS/
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-02
• https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4742
• https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4743
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00036.html
• https://github.com/netblue30/firejail/
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00033.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JFXN3JJG4DIMN4TAHOTKFMS7SGM4EOTR/

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