CVE-2011-3180

HIGH 7.5CVE-2011-3180 · Published 16/04/2014 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2011-3180 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting kiwi (suse), studio extension for system z (suse), studio onsite (suse).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.6%, higher than 85.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
kiwi suse	`≤ 4.98.07`	No fix yet
studio extension for system z suse	`= 1.2`	No fix yet
studio onsite suse	`= 1.2`	No fix yet

Description

kiwi before 4.98.08, as used in SUSE Studio Onsite 1.2 before 1.2.1 and SUSE Studio Extension for System z 1.2 before 1.2.1, allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the path of an overlay file, related to chown.

References

lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-12/msg00015.html · Vendor Advisory
openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/02/4
openSUSE/kiwi commit f0f74b3 · Exploit

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