CVE-2012-5534

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CVSS v3.1

N/A

EPSS

4.44%

Published

Dec 3, 2012

Modified

Apr 28, 2026

Public PoC / Exploit

All weaponized →

No public PoC or exploit code indexed for this CVE.

Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.

Description

The hook_process function in the plugin API for WeeChat 0.3.0 through 0.3.9.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a command from a plugin, related to "shell expansion."

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-20

Affected Products (11)

flashtux · weechatvulnerable

References (20)

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=weechat.git%3Ba=commitdiff_plain%3Bh=efb795c74fe954b9544074aafcebb1be4452b03a

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/093260.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/093495.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2012-November/093516.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2013-01/msg00018.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2012-11/msg00087.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/51294

Vendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/51377

http://weechat.org/security/

PatchVendor Advisory

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:136

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/11/19/4

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56584

https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?37764

https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Support/Advisories/MGASA-2012-0347