High
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2017-15108
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 09:52 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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"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",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2018-01-20T00:29:00.407+00:00"
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