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CVE-2014-6271

Public on 2014-09-24
Modified on 2014-09-25
Description

A flaw was found in the way Bash evaluated certain specially crafted environment variables. An attacker could use this flaw to override or bypass environment restrictions to execute shell commands. Certain services and applications allow remote unauthenticated attackers to provide environment variables, allowing them to exploit this issue.

Severity
Critical
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CVSS v3 Base Score
7.5
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 bash 2014-09-24 07:48 ALAS-2014-418

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
NVD CVSSv3 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H