CVE-2017-1000203: Cern Root

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

ROOT version 6.9.03 and below is vulnerable to an authenticated shell metacharacter injection in the rootd daemon resulting in remote code execution

Affected products

• Cern Root: up to and including 6.9.03

Published 2017-11-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.