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CVE-2011-2716

Public on 2012-07-03
Modified on 2014-09-14
Description

The DHCP client (udhcpc) in BusyBox before 1.20.0 allows remote DHCP servers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the (1) HOST_NAME, (2) DOMAIN_NAME, (3) NIS_DOMAIN, and (4) TFTP_SERVER_NAME host name options.

Severity
Low
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.8
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 busybox 2012-07-05 16:23 ALAS-2012-103

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 6.8 AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
NVD CVSSv2 6.8 AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C