CVE-2019-14868
high
CVSS v3
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CVSS v2
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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
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-14868
Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14868.html
Vendor advisory: arch — https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-202002-4
OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| arch | fixed | 2020.0.0-2 | |
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 2020.0.0-2.1 |
References
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.