CVE-2020-17368: Debian Linux

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Firejail through 0.9.62 mishandles shell metacharacters during use of the --output or --output-stderr option, which may lead to command injection.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 31 only; version 32 only
• Firejail Project Firejail: up to and including 0.9.62
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.2 only

Published 2020-08-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.