CVE-2017-15108

Publication date 20 January 2018

Last updated 18 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
spice-vdagent	26.10 stonking	Fixed in 0.17.0-1ubuntu2
	26.04 LTS resolute	Fixed in 0.17.0-1ubuntu2
	25.10 questing	Fixed in 0.17.0-1ubuntu2
	25.04 plucky	Fixed in 0.17.0-1ubuntu2
	24.10 oracular	Fixed in 0.17.0-1ubuntu2
	24.04 LTS noble	Fixed in 0.17.0-1ubuntu2
	23.10 mantic	Fixed in 0.17.0-1ubuntu2
	23.04 lunar	Fixed in 0.17.0-1ubuntu2
	22.10 kinetic	Fixed in 0.17.0-1ubuntu2
	22.04 LTS jammy	Fixed in 0.17.0-1ubuntu2
	21.10 impish	Fixed in 0.17.0-1ubuntu2
	21.04 hirsute	Fixed in 0.17.0-1ubuntu2
	20.10 groovy	Fixed in 0.17.0-1ubuntu2
	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed in 0.17.0-1ubuntu2
	19.10 eoan	Fixed in 0.17.0-1ubuntu2
	19.04 disco	Fixed in 0.17.0-1ubuntu2
	18.10 cosmic	Fixed in 0.17.0-1ubuntu2
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed in 0.17.0-1ubuntu2
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
spice-vdagent	Upstream: ?id=8ba

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.8 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.8 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-15108