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OpenSSL OpenSSL — The c_rehash script allows command injection
AV AC PR UI S C I A CVSS EPSS %ile KEV
L L L R U H H H 7.3 .9639 99.9 —
AFFECTED
Product Versions Fixed
OpenSSL Fixed in OpenSSL 3.0.4 (Affected 3.0.0,3.0.1,3.0.2,3.0.3) – —
TIMELINE
Jun 13 Reserved by openssl
Jun 21 Published (CNA: openssl)
Oct 14 RESCORED — CVE-2022-2068 (OpenSSL). CVSS 9.8 → 7.3 (NVD).
Description
In addition to the c_rehash shell command injection identified in CVE-2022-1292, further circumstances where the c_rehash script does not properly sanitise shell metacharacters to prevent command injection were found by code review. When the CVE-2022-1292 was fixed it was not discovered that there are other places in the script where the file names of certificates being hashed were possibly passed to a command executed through the shell. This script is distributed by some operating systems in a manner where it is automatically executed. On such operating systems, an attacker could execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the script. Use of the c_rehash script is considered obsolete and should be replaced by the OpenSSL rehash command line tool. Fixed in OpenSSL 3.0.4 (Affected 3.0.0,3.0.1,3.0.2,3.0.3). Fixed in OpenSSL 1.1.1p (Affected 1.1.1-1.1.1o). Fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.2zf (Affected 1.0.2-1.0.2ze).
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