CVE-2008-2575
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 2.6%EU EUVD
cbrPager before 0.9.17 allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a (1) ZIP (aka .cbz) or (2) RAR (aka .cbr) archive filename.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-78
- EPSS score
- 2.6% (86th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-2570)
- Published
- June 6, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-2570 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- fedoraproject / fedora
- fedoraproject / fedora
- fedoraproject / fedora
- jcoppens / cbrpager
References
- http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/cbrpager/devel/cbrpager-0.9.16-filen-shell-escaping.patch?rev=1.2(Broken Link, Exploit)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30417(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30438(Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30701(Broken Link)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200806-05.xml(Third Party Advisory)
- http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=827120(Broken Link, Patch)
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=601538&group_id=119647(Patch)
- http://www.jcoppens.com/soft/cbrpager/log.en.php(Release Notes)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1693/references(Broken Link)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448285(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/42741(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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