National Vulnerability Database (NVD) National Vulnerability Database (CVE-2008-3907)

Mission and Overview

NVD is the U.S. government repository of standards based vulnerability management data. This data enables automation of vulnerability management, security measurement, and compliance (e.g. FISMA).

Resource Status

NVD contains:

CVE Vulnerabilities: 56424
Checklists: 221
US-CERT Alerts: 246
US-CERT Vuln Notes: 2721
OVAL Queries: 8140
CPE Names: 73033

Last updated: Thu May 23 13:52:47 EDT 2013

CVE Publication rate: 12.37

Email List

NVD provides four mailing lists to the public. For information and subscription instructions please visit NVD Mailing Lists

Workload Index

Vulnerability Workload Index: 6.46

About Us

NVD is a product of the NIST Computer Security Division and is sponsored by the Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Division. It supports the U.S. government multi-agency (OSD, DHS, NSA, DISA, and NIST) Information Security Automation Program. It is the U.S. government content repository for the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP).

NIST Security Configuration Checklists - CSD

National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-3907

Original release date:09/04/2008

Last revised:08/19/2009

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

The open-in-browser command in newsbeuter before 1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a feed URL.

Description

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/01/4 "The previous version allowed to execute arbitrary code by a crafted feed URL that is passed as a command line parameter if the URL is opened by an external browser."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:6.8 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 6.4

Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism

Access Complexity: Medium

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving NIST webspace. We have provided these links to other web sites because they may have information that would be of interest to you. No inferences should be drawn on account of other sites being referenced, or not, from this page. There may be other web sites that are more appropriate for your purpose. NIST does not necessarily endorse the views expressed, or concur with the facts presented on these sites. Further, NIST does not endorse any commercial products that may be mentioned on these sites. Please address comments about this page to nvd@nist.gov.

External Source: XF

Name: newsbeuter-url-command-execution(44791)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/44791

External Source: BID

Name: 30964

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30964

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20080901 CVE id request: newsbeuter

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/01/4

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.newsbeuter.org/downloads/CHANGES

Hyperlink:http://www.newsbeuter.org/downloads/CHANGES