The ruby handlers in the Magnatune component in Amarok do not properly quote text in certain contexts, probably including construction of…

Description

The ruby handlers in the Magnatune component in Amarok do not properly quote text in certain contexts, probably including construction of an unzip command line, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.4% · top 16% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-20 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-20 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (9)

• 23984 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• ADV-2007-0613 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• SUSE-SR:2007:002 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166901 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• 24510 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 22568 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138499 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• GLSA-200703-11 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• 24159 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 20:50 UTC.