Untrusted Search Path Affecting rh-git218-git-email package, versions <0:2.18.1-3.el7


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.12% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-RHGIT218GITEMAIL-4746122
  • published1 Nov 2021
  • disclosed24 Oct 2018

Introduced: 24 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-19486  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-426  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 rh-git218-git-email to version 0:2.18.1-3.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2018:3800.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rh-git218-git-email package and not the rh-git218-git-email package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.