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High severity8.8OSV Advisory· Published Nov 17, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-1000203

CVE-2017-1000203

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

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Affected products

3

Root Project/RootOSV2 versions
v5-99-03, v5-99-03-02, v5-99-04, …+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: v5-99-03, v5-99-03-02, v5-99-04, …
- (no CPE)range: <=6.9.03
Cern/Root
cpe:2.3:a:cern:root:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Range: <=6.9.03

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

1

github.com/root-project/root/commit/88ccff152604e0f1012653a596d802ff7ede3145nvdPatchVendor Advisory

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