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CVE-2014-7817

Public on 2014-11-24
Modified on 2015-01-08
Description

It was found that the wordexp() function would perform command substitution even when the WRDE_NOCMD flag was specified. An attacker able to provide specially crafted input to an application using the wordexp() function, and not sanitizing the input correctly, could potentially use this flaw to execute arbitrary commands with the credentials of the user running that application.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
3.6
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 glibc 2015-01-08 12:38 ALAS-2015-468

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 3.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P