Improper Input Validation Affecting bash package, versions [,4.4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.27% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-BASH-2368332
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed22 Mar 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 22 Mar 2019

CVE-2019-9924  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade bash to version 4.4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation rbash in Bash before 4.4-beta2 did not prevent the shell user from modifying BASH_CMDS, thus allowing the user to execute any command with the permissions of the shell.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1