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opennds — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2023-38316

An issue was discovered in OpenNDS Captive Portal before version 10.1.2. When the custom unescape callback is enabled, attackers can execute arbitrary OS commands by inserting them into the URL portion of HTTP GET requests. Affected OpenNDS Captive Portal before version 10.1.2 fixed in OpenWrt master, OpenWrt 23.05 and OpenWrt 22.03 on 28. August 2023 by updating OpenNDS to version 10.1.3.

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-2023-38316
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 16:24 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2023-38316

core-osv · Original source

Published 17 Nov 2023, 06:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in OpenNDS Captive Portal before version 10.1.2. When the custom unescape callback is enabled, attackers can execute arbitrary OS commands by inserting them into the URL portion of HTTP GET requests. Affected OpenNDS Captive Portal before version 10.1.2 fixed in OpenWrt master, OpenWrt 23.05 and OpenWrt 22.03 on 28. August 2023 by updating OpenNDS to version 10.1.3.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-38316

opennds

Fixed versions: Not specified

opennds

Fixed versions: 10.2.0+dfsg-1

Complete source record
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    "summary": "An issue was discovered in OpenNDS Captive Portal before version 10.1.2. When the custom unescape callback is enabled, attackers can execute arbitrary OS commands by inserting them into the URL portion of HTTP GET requests. Affected OpenNDS Captive Portal before version 10.1.2 fixed in OpenWrt master, OpenWrt 23.05 and OpenWrt 22.03 on 28. August 2023 by updating OpenNDS to version 10.1.3.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-26T18:03:06.114602331Z",
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 457628,
  "published_at": "2023-11-17T06:15:33.617+00:00"
}