{"id":"CVE-2017-1000203","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-1000203","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T02:09:52.815Z","title":"ROOT version 6.9.03 and below is vulnerable to an authenticated shell metacharacter injection in the rootd daemon resulting in remote code execution","description":"ROOT version 6.9.03 and below is vulnerable to an authenticated shell metacharacter injection in the rootd daemon resulting in remote code execution","published":"2017-11-17T15:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:58:54.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-78"],"affected":["cern/root"],"epss":{"score":0.03913,"percentile":0.90247,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.91%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/root-project/root/commit/88ccff152604e0f1012653a596d802ff7ede3145#diff-6cd6f6c31bac70116b7ca7abdc8e517e","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/root-project/root/commit/88ccff152604e0f1012653a596d802ff7ede3145#diff-6cd6f6c31bac70116b7ca7abdc8e517e","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000203","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}