CriticalFix available
opennds — security advisory
An issue was discovered in OpenNDS before 10.1.3. It fails to sanitize the gateway FQDN entry in the configuration file, allowing attackers that have direct or indirect access to this file to execute arbitrary OS commands.
- Products
- opennds
- Affected versions
- 10.2.0+dfsg-1, 10.3.0+dfsg-0.1, 10.3.1+dfsg-1, 9.10.0-1
- Fixed versions
- 10.2.0+dfsg-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-38318
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 16:24 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue was discovered in OpenNDS before 10.1.3. It fails to sanitize the gateway FQDN entry in the configuration file, allowing attackers that have direct or indirect access to this file to execute arbitrary OS commands.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-38318
opennds
Fixed versions: Not specified
opennds
Fixed versions: 10.2.0+dfsg-1
Complete source record
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