CVE-2014-2096

medium

Published 2014-02-26 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.6

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Catfish 0.6.0 through 1.0.0 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse bin/catfish.py under 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	`1.0.1-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1.0.1-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`1.0.1-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`1.0.1-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1.0.1-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
catfish_project	catfish	`0.6.0`
catfish_project	catfish	`0.6.1`
catfish_project	catfish	`0.6.2`
catfish_project	catfish	`0.6.3`
catfish_project	catfish	`0.6.4`
catfish_project	catfish	`0.8.0`
catfish_project	catfish	`0.8.1`
catfish_project	catfish	`0.8.2`
catfish_project	catfish	`1.0.0`

References

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.