Vulnerabilities / CVE-2020-17368

critical

CVE-2020-17368

Firejail through 0.9.62 mishandles shell metacharacters during use of ...

Published Modified CWE 78
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD.

Description

Firejail through 0.9.62 mishandles shell metacharacters during use of the --output or --output-stderr option, which may lead to command injection.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 10firejail, mediawiki0.9.58.2-2+deb10u1 and 1 more
debian 11firejail0.9.62-4
debian 12firejail0.9.62-4
debian 13firejail0.9.62-4
debian 9firejail0.9.44.8-2+deb9u1
echofirejail0.9.62-4
Show all 7 entries from 6 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
debian 10firejail0.9.58.2-2+deb10u1
debian 10mediawiki1:1.31.10-1~deb10u1
debian 11firejail0.9.62-4
debian 12firejail0.9.62-4
debian 13firejail0.9.62-4
debian 9firejail0.9.44.8-2+deb9u1
echofirejail0.9.62-4

References

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