CVE-2019-14868

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

In ksh version 20120801, a flaw was found in the way it evaluates certain environment variables. An attacker could use this flaw to override or bypass environment restrictions to execute shell commands. Services and applications that allow remote unauthenticated attackers to provide one of those environment variables could allow them to exploit this issue remotely.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-14868

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14868.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202002-4

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed2020.0.0-2
suse slesaffected
debian debianbullseyefixed2020.0.0-2.1

References

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