CVE-2026-129124

Description

C-Kermit before 11.1.515 contains an OS command injection vulnerability that allows remote clients to execute shell commands by supplying unquoted arguments to REMOTE WHO or REMOTE SPACE. Attackers can append shell metacharacters to arguments passed through WHOCMD or SPACM2 to syscmd(), executing commands on the server host even when DISABLE HOST is set.

Severity scores

Each score is shown as its source gave it. They are not averaged or merged.

• 9.2CVSS 4.0, Criticalfrom the CNA (VulnCheck)CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
• 8.1CVSS 3.1, Highfrom the CNA (VulnCheck)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Historical context and remediation

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Version statuses below come from the CNA. An “unaffected” version is not necessarily a currently supported release or proof of a patch date. EPSS is a dated risk estimate, not a count of historical attacks.

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Affected products

Timeline

1. 13 Nov 2026 Published

Weakness

• CWE-78

References

• GitHub Security Advisory (GHSA-c5px-7h4c-gj8p)vendor-advisory
• github.compatch
• C-Kermit v11.1.515 Release Notesrelease-notes
• github.comtechnical-description
• VulnCheck Advisory: C-Kermit before 11.1.515 OS Command Injection via REMOTE WHO and REMOTE SPACEthird-party-advisory