CVE-2011-3180: Suse Kiwi

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

kiwi before 4.98.08, as used in SUSE Studio Onsite 1.2 before 1.2.1 and SUSE Studio Extension for System z 1.2 before 1.2.1, allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the path of an overlay file, related to chown.

Affected products

• Suse Kiwi: up to and including 4.98.07
• Suse Studio Extension For System Z: version 1.2 only
• Suse Studio Onsite: version 1.2 only

Published 2014-04-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.