CVE-2007-5837
GUI.pm in yarssr 0.2.2, when Gnome default URL handling is disabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 6.2%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
GUI.pm in yarssr 0.2.2, when Gnome default URL handling is disabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a link element in a feed.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Yarssr 0.2.2 - GUI.PM Remote Code Injection (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 30728remote, linuxpublished 31 Oct 2007Verified
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Timeline
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Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.2% · top 6.4% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
7
- DSA-1477 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- ADV-2007-3679 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 26273 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- yarssr-gui-command-execution(38191) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 28671 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 27454 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=448721 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2007-5807 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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