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CVE-2026-129124 C-Kermit before 11.1.515 OS Command Injection via REMOTE WHO and REMOTE SPACE

9.2 critical

Critical (9.2) in openkermit c-kermit.

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C-Kermit before 11.1.515 contains an OS command injection vulnerability that allows remote clients to execute shell commands by supplying unquoted arguments to REMOTE WHO or REMOTE SPACE. Attackers can append shell metacharacters to arguments passed through WHOCMD or SPACM2 to syscmd(), executing commands on the server host even when DISABLE HOST is set.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

9.2 critical
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS 3.1

8.1 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command (OS Command Injection)
OWASP Top 10
A05:2025 Injection
Published
Modified
Assigned by
VulnCheck (CNA)
NVD analysis
Deferred: the NVD does not plan to analyze it
Record from
the NVD, synced

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Versions

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ProductAffected
OpenKermit C-Kermitbefore 11.1.515

Attack patterns (CAPEC)

  • CAPEC-6 Argument Injection Likelihood: High · Severity: High
  • CAPEC-15 Command Delimiters Likelihood: High · Severity: High
  • CAPEC-43 Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers Likelihood: Medium · Severity: High
  • CAPEC-88 OS Command Injection Likelihood: High · Severity: High
  • CAPEC-108 Command Line Execution through SQL Injection Likelihood: Low · Severity: Very High

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History

  1. The NVD deferred its analysis

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