NIXPKGS-2026-2139

GitHub issue published 13 hours ago

gpsd gpsprof Command Injection via gnuplot plot title subtype field

Permalink CVE-2026-58459

8.4 HIGH

CVSS version (CVSS): 4.0
Attack Vector (AV): Local (L)
Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
Attack Requirement (AT): None (N)
Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
User Interaction (UI): Active (A)
Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC): High (H)
Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI): High (H)
Vulnerable System Impact Availability (VA): High (H)
Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (SC): None (N)
Subsequent System Impact Integrity (SI): None (N)
Subsequent System Impact Availability (SA): None (N)
Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Local (L)
Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
Modified Attack Requirement (MAT): None (N)
Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
Modified User Interaction (MUI): Active (A)
Modified Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (MVC): High (H)
Modified Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (MVI): High (H)
Modified Vulnerable System Impact Availability (MVA): High (H)
Modified Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (MSC): Negligible (N)
Modified Subsequent System Impact Integrity (MSI): Negligible (N)
Modified Subsequent System Impact Availability (MSA): Negligible (N)
Safety (S): Not Defined (X)
Automatable (AU): Not Defined (X)
Recovery (R): Not Defined (X)
Value Density (V): Not Defined (X)
Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Not Defined (X)
Provider Urgency (U): Not Defined (X)
Confidentiality Req. (CR): Not Defined (X)
Integrity Req. (IR): Not Defined (X)
Availability Req. (AR): Not Defined (X)
Exploit Maturity (E): Not Defined (X)

updated 13 hours ago by @LeSuisse Activity log

Created suggestion 23 hours ago
@LeSuisse ignored package indi-3rdparty.indi-gpsd 15 hours ago
@LeSuisse accepted 15 hours ago
@LeSuisse published on GitHub 13 hours ago

gpsd gpsprof Command Injection via gnuplot plot title subtype field

gpsd through release-3.27.5, fixed at commit 4c06658, contains a command injection vulnerability in gpsprof that allows attackers who control the GPS device subtype value to execute arbitrary shell commands by embedding backtick payloads in the gnuplot plot title without proper escaping. The subtype field sourced from a DEVICES JSON log entry or NMEA PGRMT sentence is written into a generated gnuplot program via a set title statement with only double-quote characters escaped, enabling arbitrary shell command execution as the user running gnuplot when the victim renders the generated plot through the gpsprof and gnuplot workflow.