Insufficient sanitisation in the OCaml compiler versions... · CVE-2017-9772 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Insufficient sanitisation in the OCaml compiler versions...

Critical severity Unreviewed Published May 13, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 2, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

Insufficient sanitisation in the OCaml compiler versions 4.04.0 and 4.04.1 allows external code to be executed with raised privilege in binaries marked as setuid, by setting the CAML_CPLUGINS, CAML_NATIVE_CPLUGINS, or CAML_BYTE_CPLUGINS environment variable.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database

Jun 23, 2017

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2022

Last updated Feb 2, 2023

Severity

Critical

9.8

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H