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CVE-2017-17562

Severity
HIGH
CVSS
8.1
EPSS
0.96327
Risk score
58.71
CISA KEV
Yes
PoC
No
Published
2017-12-12
Modified
2025-10-21
First seen
2026-08-07
Aliases
EUVD-2017-8720, GHSA-Q5WM-274Q-F3V6
Products
Embedthis:GoAhead, n/a:n/a n/a
Sources
cisa.gov CVE-2017-17562
euvd EUVD-2017-8720

Description

Embedthis GoAhead before 3.6.5 allows remote code execution if CGI is enabled and a CGI program is dynamically linked. This is a result of initializing the environment of forked CGI scripts using untrusted HTTP request parameters in the cgiHandler function in cgi.c. When combined with the glibc dynamic linker, this behaviour can be abused for remote code execution using special parameter names such as LD_PRELOAD. An attacker can POST their shared object payload in the body of the request, and reference it using /proc/self/fd/0.

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