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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2017-15108

spice-vdagent up to and including 0.17.0 does not properly escape save directory before passing to shell, allowing local attacker with access to the session the agent runs in to inject arbitrary commands to be executed.

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31 Oct 2026, 09:52 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2017-15108

core-osv · Original source

Published 20 Jan 2018, 00:29 UTC

spice-vdagent up to and including 0.17.0 does not properly escape save directory before passing to shell, allowing local attacker with access to the session the agent runs in to inject arbitrary commands to be executed.

osv:CVE-2017-15108
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-15108",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-15108",
    "summary": "spice-vdagent up to and including 0.17.0 does not properly escape save directory before passing to shell, allowing local attacker with access to the session the agent runs in to inject arbitrary commands to be executed.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-15108",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
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        }
      ],
      "affected": [
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                },
                {
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              ],
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                  {
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          ],
          "versions": [
            "spice-vdagent-0.17.0",
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            "spice-vdagent-0.15.0",
            "spice-vdagent-0.14.0",
            "spice-vdagent-0.12.1",
            "spice-vdagent-0.12.0",
            "spice-vdagent-0.10.1",
            "spice-vdagent-0.10.0",
            "spice-vdagent-0.8.1",
            "spice-vdagent-0.8.0",
            "spice-vdagent-0.6.3"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-15108.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:48:15.124576686Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00012.html",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-09",
        "https://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/linux/vd_agent/commit/?id=8ba174816d245757e743e636df357910e1d5eb61"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
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              "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "9.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                  }
                ],
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              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-15108",
        "evidence": "/id"
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    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 380194,
  "published_at": "2018-01-20T00:29:00.407+00:00"
}