CVE-2008-4641: Sentex Jhead

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 2.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The DoCommand function in jhead.c in Matthias Wandel jhead 2.84 and earlier allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in unspecified input.

Affected products

• Sentex Jhead: up to and including 2.82; version 1.2 only; version 1.3 only; version 1.4 only; version 1.5 only; version 1.6 only; …

Published 2008-10-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.