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GLSA-202506-10 : File-Find-Rule: Shell Injection

high Nessus Plugin ID 240462

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202506-10 (File-Find-Rule: Shell Injection)

 File-Find-Rule uses the legacy '2-arg' open() call which is susceptible to shell injection via malicious filenames.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

All File-Find-Rule users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=dev-perl/File-Find-Rule-0.350.0

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202506-10

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=957182

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 240462

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202506-10.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 6/25/2025

Updated: 6/25/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-10007

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:file-find-rule

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/12/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/5/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-10007