Improper Input Validation Affecting fish-shell/fish-shell package, versions [2.0.0,2.1.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.37% (87th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-FISHSHELLFISHSHELL-2440670
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed28 Jan 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Jan 2020

CVE-2014-2914  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade fish-shell/fish-shell to version 2.1.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation fish (aka fish-shell) 2.0.0 before 2.1.1 does not restrict access to the configuration service (aka fish_config), which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, as demonstrated by set_prompt.

References

CVSS Scores

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