CVE-2023-38336

9.8 criticalEPSS 2.1%

Critical (9.8) in netkit netkit. EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

netkit-rcp in rsh-client 0.17-24 allows command injection via filenames because /bin/sh is used by susystem, a related issue to CVE-2006-0225, CVE-2019-7283, and CVE-2020-15778.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

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

EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 81% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-77
Published: 2023-07-14
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

netkit:netkit

References

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1039689
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1039689

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