CVE-2014-7169

CVE Details

Release Date:

2014-09-24

Description

It was found that the fix for CVE-2014-6271 was incomplete, and Bash still allowed certain characters to be injected into other environments via specially crafted environment variables. An attacker could potentially 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.

See more information about CVE-2014-7169 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD

CVSS v2.0 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score:	5.1	Base Metrics:	AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector:	Network	Attack Complexity:	High
Authentication:	None required	Confidentiality Impact:	Partial
Integrity Impact:	Partial	Availability Impact:	Partial

Errata information

Platform	Errata	Release Date
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (bash)	ELSA-2014-3078	2014-09-25
Oracle Enterprise Linux version 4 (bash)	ELSA-2014-3079	2014-09-26
Oracle Linux version 5 (bash)	ELSA-2014-1306	2014-09-25
Oracle Linux version 5 (bash)	ELSA-2014-3077	2014-09-25
Oracle Linux version 6 (bash)	ELSA-2014-1306	2014-09-25
Oracle Linux version 6 (bash)	ELSA-2014-3075	2014-09-25
Oracle Linux version 7 (bash)	ELSA-2014-1306	2014-09-25
Oracle Linux version 7 (bash)	ELSA-2014-3076	2014-09-25
Oracle VM version 3.3 (bash)	OVMSA-2014-0021	2015-01-12

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