CVE-2016-1253

9.8 criticalEPSS 4.8%

Critical (9.8) in debian most. EPSS 4.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The most package in Debian wheezy before 5.0.0a-2.2, in Debian jessie before 5.0.0a-2.3+deb8u1, and in Debian unstable before 5.0.0a-3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the name of an LZMA-compressed file.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

9.8 critical

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

EPSS: 4.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 91% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-78
Published: 2017-12-05
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

debian:most

References

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/666
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94931
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=848132
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2016/12/msg00020.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q4/666

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