CVE-2020-17367
Firejail through 0.9.62 does not honor the -- end-of-options indicator after the --output option, which may lead to command injection.
02 Description
Firejail through 0.9.62 does not honor the -- end-of-options indicator after the --output option, which may lead to command injection.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.46% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 73.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-08-11 15:58Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 13:53Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-08-05
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-88Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 5be4f9471f191c0c817ff7946a2bdd13948d2ebf55da77d3c329d21284a644a6
05 Affected products
06 References
- github.comhttps://github.com/netblue30/firejail
- www.debian.orghttps://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4742
- www.debian.orgDSA-4743https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4743
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2020:1208http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00036.html
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20200822 [SECURITY] [DLA 2336-1] firejail security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00033.html
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2020-45fc8559d5https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/W66IR5YT4KG464SKEMQN2NP2LGATGEGS/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2020-80a6d7e7e0https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JFXN3JJG4DIMN4TAHOTKFMS7SGM4EOTR/
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-202101-02https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202101-02
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- firejail Fixed in 0.9.62-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- firejail Fixed in 0.9.62-4
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- firejail No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- firejail No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- firejail No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.