Bug 1878666 (CVE-2020-24916)

Summary: CVE-2020-24916 yaws: OS command injection possible in CGI implementation
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Marian Rehak <mrehak>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Marian Rehak 2020-09-14 10:13:50 UTC
CGI implementation in Yaws web server versions 1.81 to 2.0.7 is vulnerable to OS command injection.

Reference:

https://github.com/erlyaws/yaws/commits/master
https://github.com/vulnbe/poc-yaws-cgi-shell-injection

Comment 1 Marian Rehak 2020-09-14 10:14:23 UTC
Created yaws tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1878668]
Affects: fedora-31 [bug 1878667]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-09-14 13:17:54 UTC
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.