CVE-2017-9772 (GCVE-0-2017-9772)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-06-23 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 17:18
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Summary
Insufficient sanitisation in the OCaml compiler versions 4.04.0 and 4.04.1 allows external code to be executed with raised privilege in binaries marked as setuid, by setting the CAML_CPLUGINS, CAML_NATIVE_CPLUGINS, or CAML_BYTE_CPLUGINS environment variable.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2017-06-23 00:00
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