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CVE-2017-1000487

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-1000487 is a critical command injection vulnerability affecting Plexus-utils versions prior to 3.0.16, impacting products like codehaus_plexus and Debian Linux. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands remotely with high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, requiring no user interaction. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.0.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:codehaus-plexus:plexus-utils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
6.54%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0654 is in the 88th percentile among its peer group of 36,821 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (12)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.codehaus.plexus:plexus-utilsFixed in: 3.0.16
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.3Fixed in: plexus-utils
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.3Fixed in: plexus-utils
View patch
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: JBoss Developer Studio 10Fixed in: plexus-utils
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Portal 6Fixed in: plexus-utils
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: JBoss Developer Studio 8Fixed in: plexus-utils
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6Fixed in: plexus-utils
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka)Fixed in: opendaylight
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: plexus-utils
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6Fixed in: plexus-utils
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty)Fixed in: opendaylight

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-8vhq-qq4p-grq3critical

OS Command Injection in Plexus-utils

May 13, 2022
redhatCVE-2017-1000487Moderate

plexus-utils: Mishandled strings in Commandline class allow for command injection

Oct 9, 2013

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:1322
Third Party Advisory
github.com / codehaus-plexus/plexus-utils/commit/b38a1b3a4352303e4312b2bb601a0d7ec6e28f41
PatchThird Party Advisory
lists.apache.org / thread.html/9317fd092b257a0815434b116a8af8daea6e920b6673f4fd5583d5fe%40%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r2e94f72f53df432302d359fd66cfa9e9efb8d42633d54579a4377e62%40%3Cdev.avro.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/r9584c4304c888f651d214341a939bd264ed30c9e3d0d30fe85097ecf%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E
lists.apache.org / thread.html/rd0e44e8ef71eeaaa3cf3d1b8b41eb25894372e2995ec908ce7624d26%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00010.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00011.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
snyk.io / vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGCODEHAUSPLEXUS-31522
PatchThird Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2018/dsa-4146
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2018/dsa-4149
Third Party Advisory