ubuntu · CVE-2016-2056

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Priority: medium Published: 2016-04-13 16:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 21:56:21 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-2056 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (xymon), 11 status rows across 11 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, precise, trusty, upstream, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 7, ignored 2, DNE 1, released 1.

Description:

xymond in Xymon 4.1.x, 4.2.x, and 4.3.x before 4.3.25 allow remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the adduser_name argument in (1) web/useradm.c or (2) web/chpasswd.c.

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