OS Command Injection Affecting bash package, versions <4.3-9.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
90.44% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN12-BASH-1542264
  • published25 Sept 2014
  • disclosed25 Sept 2014

Introduced: 25 Sep 2014

CVE-2014-7169  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-78  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:12 bash to version 4.3-9.2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream bash package and not the bash package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.

GNU Bash through 4.3 bash43-025 processes trailing strings after certain malformed function definitions in the values of environment variables, which allows remote attackers to write to files or possibly have unknown other impact via a crafted environment, as demonstrated by vectors involving the ForceCommand feature in OpenSSH sshd, the mod_cgi and mod_cgid modules in the Apache HTTP Server, scripts executed by unspecified DHCP clients, and other situations in which setting the environment occurs across a privilege boundary from Bash execution. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-6271.

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