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CVE-2008-3907
The open-in-browser command in newsbeuter before 1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 1.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 21% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The open-in-browser command in newsbeuter before 1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a feed URL.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 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)
- 1.8% · top 21% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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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
8
- [oss-security] 20080901 CVE id request: newsbeuter (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://newsbeuter.wordpress.com/2008/09/01/newsbeuter-11-released-contains-security-fix-please-upgrade/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- newsbeuter-url-command-execution(44791) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 31676 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.newsbeuter.org/downloads/CHANGES (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-200809-12 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 31995 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 30964 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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-2008-3893 (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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