CVE-2017-1000215

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-1000215
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-1000215.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-1000215
Published
2017-11-17T20:29:00.277Z
Modified
2026-04-11T04:47:17.916126Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

ROOT xrootd version 4.6.0 and below is vulnerable to an unauthenticated shell command injection resulting in remote code execution

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/xrootd/xrootd

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
c725bfc215e809c72ead90da00ade3a03bc85f30
Fixed
befa2e627a5a33a38c92db3e57c07d8246a24acf
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "4.6.0"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v3.*
v3.0.3
v3.0.4-rc1
v3.1.0
v3.1.0-rc1
v3.1.0-rc2
v3.1.0-rc3
v3.3.0-rc1
v4.*
v4.0.0
v4.0.0-rc1
v4.0.0-rc2
v4.0.0-rc3
v4.1.0
v4.2.0
v4.6.0
v4.6.0-rc1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-1000215.json"
vanir_signatures_modified 
"2026-04-11T04:47:17Z"
vanir_signatures 
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        "signature_type": "Function",
        "source": "https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/commit/befa2e627a5a33a38c92db3e57c07d8246a24acf",
        "digest": {
            "function_hash": "112229951031899810966736752844636854031",
            "length": 853.0
        },
        "id": "CVE-2017-1000215-2fcbb095",
        "deprecated": false,
        "target": {
            "file": "src/XrdCl/XrdClDefaultEnv.cc",
            "function": "DefaultEnv::Initialize"
        }
    },
    {
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "source": "https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/commit/befa2e627a5a33a38c92db3e57c07d8246a24acf",
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        },
        "id": "CVE-2017-1000215-3b1688e8",
        "deprecated": false,
        "target": {
            "file": "src/XrdCl/XrdClDefaultEnv.cc"
        }
    },
    {
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "source": "https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/commit/befa2e627a5a33a38c92db3e57c07d8246a24acf",
        "digest": {
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        },
        "id": "CVE-2017-1000215-ca0285d5",
        "deprecated": false,
        "target": {
            "file": "src/XrdVersionPlugin.hh"
        }
    }
]