CVE-2014-7817

MEDIUM

Description

The wordexp function in GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.21 does not enforce the WRDE_NOCMD flag, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands, as demonstrated by input containing "$((`...`))".

References

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0016.html

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0092.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00089.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-2023.html

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/730

http://secunia.com/advisories/62100

http://secunia.com/advisories/62146

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3142

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2018-3236628.html

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71216

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2432-1

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/98852

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201602-02

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17625

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=a39208bd7fb76c1b01c127b4c61f9bfd915bfe7c

https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2014-11/msg00519.html

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2014-11-24

Updated: 2018-10-30

Type: CWE-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Impact Score: 6.4

Exploitability Score: 3.9

Severity: MEDIUM

Vulnerable Software

Tenable Plugins

View all (25 total)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
88822	GLSA-201602-02 : GNU C Library: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	critical
88783	OracleVM 3.3 : glibc (OVMSA-2016-0013) (GHOST)	Nessus	OracleVM Local Security Checks	critical
86008	F5 Networks BIG-IP : GNU C Library (glibc) vulnerability (SOL16010)	Nessus	F5 Networks Local Security Checks	medium
83705	SUSE SLES11 Security Update : glibc (SUSE-SU-2015:0551-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
83704	SUSE SLES10 Security Update : glibc (SUSE-SU-2015:0550-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
83701	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : glibc (SUSE-SU-2015:0526-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
82421	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : glibc (MDVSA-2015:168)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	high
82242	Debian DLA-97-1 : eglibc security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	medium
81667	SuSE 11.3 Security Update : glibc (SAT Patch Number 10357)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
81616	Fedora 20 : glibc-2.18-19.fc20 (2015-2845)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
81615	Fedora 21 : glibc-2.20-8.fc21 (2015-2837)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
81560	openSUSE Security Update : glibc (openSUSE-2015-173)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
81029	Debian DSA-3142-1 : eglibc - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high
80439	OracleVM 3.3 : glibc (OVMSA-2015-0003)	Nessus	OracleVM Local Security Checks	medium
80419	Amazon Linux AMI : glibc (ALAS-2015-468)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
80409	Scientific Linux Security Update : glibc on SL6.x i386/x86_64 (20150107)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	medium
80408	RHEL 6 : glibc (RHSA-2015:0016)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
80407	Oracle Linux 6 : glibc (ELSA-2015-0016)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
80400	CentOS 6 : glibc (CESA-2015:0016)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
80162	Scientific Linux Security Update : glibc on SL7.x x86_64 (20141218)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	medium
80123	CentOS 7 : glibc (CESA-2014:2023)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	medium
80116	RHEL 7 : glibc (RHSA-2014:2023)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
80114	Oracle Linux 7 : glibc (ELSA-2014-2023)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	medium
79718	Ubuntu 10.04 LTS / 12.04 LTS / 14.04 LTS / 14.10 : eglibc, glibc vulnerabilities (USN-2432-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	medium
79612	Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : glibc (MDVSA-2014:232)	Nessus	Mandriva Local Security Checks	medium