CVE-2024-32487: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.6. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

less through 653 allows OS command execution via a newline character in the name of a file, because quoting is mishandled in filename.c. Exploitation typically requires use with attacker-controlled file names, such as the files extracted from an untrusted archive. Exploitation also requires the LESSOPEN environment variable, but this is set by default in many common cases.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
• Greenwoodsoftware Less: up to and including 653
• Netapp Bootstrap OS: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Hci Storage Nodes: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Solidfire: affected versions not specified

Published 2024-04-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.