CVE-2018-19486 (GCVE-0-2018-19486)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-11-23 08:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 11:37
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Git before 2.19.2 on Linux and UNIX executes commands from the current working directory (as if '.' were at the end of $PATH) in certain cases involving the run_command() API and run-command.c, because there was a dangerous change from execvp to execv during 2017.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
7 references
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|---|---|
| https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/commit… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106020 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/tree/D… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042166 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3800 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/3829-1/ | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-13 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
Date Public
2018-11-23 00:00
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"aggregate_severity": "moderate",
"current_release_date": "2026-09-02T02:39:13Z",
"cve": "CVE-2018-19486",
"id": "CVE-2018-19486",
"initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T04:22:02Z",
"product_status:known_affected": "9",
"product_status:known_not_affected": "162",
"product_status:recommended": "687",
"source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
"status": "interim",
"title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2018-19486",
"url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2018-19486.json",
"version": "27"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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