CVE-2019-14868
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-04-02 16:48
Modified
2024-08-05 00:26
Severity ?
7.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
In ksh version 20120801, a flaw was found in the way it evaluates certain environment variables. An attacker could use this flaw to override or bypass environment restrictions to execute shell commands. Services and applications that allow remote unauthenticated attackers to provide one of those environment variables could allow them to exploit this issue remotely.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/May/53Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14868Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/att/ast/commit/c7de8b641266bac7c77942239ac659edfee9ecd2Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00015.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://support.apple.com/kb/HT211170Third Party Advisory
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