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.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | glibc | 2015-01-08 12:38 | ALAS-2015-468 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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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 |