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CVE-2018-16741

mgetty: command injection in faxrunq

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.7

CVSS 3.0

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Published · September 11, 2018

Updated · November 22, 2025

Description

A command injection flaw was discovered in mgetty in the faxrunq script used to send queued faxes. The shell script faxrunq does not properly escape the arguments passed to faxsend before evaluating the command allowing a user, who has permissions to queue faxes in the system, to execute arbitrary command with elevated privileges.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

Allow only trusted users to run the faxq-helper binary, by correctly setting the /etc/mgetty+sendfax/fax.allow configuration file.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 6.7
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-77 · Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')