CVE-2017-16926

9.8 criticalEPSS 5.6%

Critical (9.8) in ohcount project ohcount. EPSS 5.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Ohcount 3.0.0 is prone to a command injection via specially crafted filenames containing shell metacharacters, which can be exploited by an attacker (providing a source tree for Ohcount processing) to execute arbitrary code as the user running Ohcount.

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: 5.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 92% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-78
Published: 2017-11-22
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

ohcount_project:ohcount

References

https://bugs.debian.org/882372
https://bugs.debian.org/882372

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