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CVE-2017-18044

CRITICAL

A Command Injection issue was discovered in ContentStore/Base/CVDataPipe.dll in Commvault before v11 SP6. A certain message parsing function inside the Commvault service does not properly validate the input of an incoming string before passing it to CreateProcess. As a result, a specially crafted message can inject commands that will be executed on the target operating system. Exploitation of this vulnerability does not require authentication and can lead to SYSTEM level privilege on any system running the cvd daemon. This is a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-3195.

Published: Jan 19, 2018 Modified: Jun 17, 2026
CWE-78

CVSS Metrics

CVSSv3
Attack Vector: NETWORK Attack Complexity: LOW Privileges Required: NONE User Interaction: NONE Scope: UNCHANGED Confidentiality Impact: HIGH Integrity Impact: HIGH Availability Impact: HIGH

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

Affected Products (6)

Vendor Product Version
commvault commvault 11.0
commvault commvault 11.0
commvault commvault 11.0
commvault commvault 11.0
commvault commvault 11.0
commvault commvault *

GitHub Security Advisory GHSA-xr74-c8hv-6762

A Command Injection issue was discovered in ContentStore/Base/CVDataPipe.dll in Commvault before...

Risk Scores

CVSS Score 9.8 / 10
EPSS Score 69.75%

Top 1% most likely to be exploited

Threat Score 60.1 / 100

Data Sources

NVD EPSS GitHub