VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-4677

high
Published 2017-02-22 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
7.2
VIR risk
7.8

Description

The installPackage function in the installerHelper subcomponent in Libmacgpg in GPG Suite before 2015.06 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges via shell metacharacters in the xmlPath argument.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://gpgtools.org/releases/gpgsuite/2015.08/release-notes.html

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gpgtoolslibmacgpg{"endIncluding":"0.6"}

References

CWEs

CWE-77

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