CVE-2014-6271
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2014-09-24 | |
| Impact: | Critical | What is this? |
Description
A flaw was found in the way Bash evaluated certain specially crafted environment variables. An attacker could use this flaw to override or bypass environment restrictions to execute shell commands. Certain services and applications allow remote unauthenticated attackers to provide environment variables, allowing them to exploit this issue.
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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score: | 7.5 |
| Vector String: | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Version: | 2.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Network |
| Attack Complexity: | Low |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Partial |
| Integrity Impact: | Partial |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (bash) | ELSA-2014-1294 | 2014-09-24 |
| Oracle Linux version 5 (bash) | ELSA-2014-1293 | 2014-09-24 |
| Oracle Linux version 6 (bash) | ELSA-2014-1293 | 2014-09-24 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (bash) | ELSA-2014-1293 | 2014-09-24 |
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