CVE-2008-1568
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 2.3%EU EUVD
comix 3.6.4 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a filename containing shell metacharacters that are not properly sanitized when executing the rar, unrar, or jpegtran programs.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 2.3% (83th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-1569)
- Published
- March 31, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-1569 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- comix / comix
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462840
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29621
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29731
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29956
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200804-29.xml
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28547
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41554
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00171.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-April/msg00183.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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