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CVE-2016-6903
lshell 0.9.16 allows remote authenticated users to break out of a limited shell and execute arbitrary commands.
Critical9.9EPSS 5.0%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- debian
Description
lshell 0.9.16 allows remote authenticated users to break out of a limited shell and execute arbitrary commands.
Timeline
ID reserved
By debian
- 8 months later
· 8 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 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 | 3.0 | Critical9.9 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.0% · top 7.7% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.9.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1369345 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 92591 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=834946 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20160822 Re: CVE Request: lshell: shell outbreak vulnerabilities via bad syntax parse and multiline commands (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://github.com/ghantoos/lshell/issues/149 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/ghantoos/lshell/commit/e72dfcd1f258193f9aaea3591ecbdaed207661a0 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/ghantoos/lshell/pull/153/commits/a686f71732a3d0f16df52ef46ab8a49ee0083c68 (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)
- 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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