CVE-2013-1874

medium

Published 2014-09-29 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.4

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in csi in Chicken before 4.8.2 allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse .csirc in the current working directory.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`4.8.0.3-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`4.8.0.3-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`4.8.0.3-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`4.8.0.3-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`4.8.0.3-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
call-cc	chicken	`{"endIncluding":"4.8.1"}`
call-cc	chicken	`4.8.0`
call-cc	chicken	`4.8.0.1`
call-cc	chicken	`4.8.0.2`
call-cc	chicken	`4.8.0.3`
call-cc	chicken	`4.8.0.4`
call-cc	chicken	`4.8.0.5`
call-cc	chicken	`4.8.0.6`
call-cc	chicken	`4.8.0.7`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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