CVE-2017-5932

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Mar 27, 2017
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Feb 7, 2017

Description

The path autocompletion feature in Bash 4.4 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted filename starting with a " (double quote) character and a command substitution metacharacter.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/bash.git/commit/?id=4f747edc625815f449048579f6e65869914dd715
[bug-bash] 20170120 Bash-4.4 Official Patch 7mailing-list
[oss-security] 20170207 Re: CVE Request - Code execution vulnerability in GNU/bash v4.4 autocompletionmailing-list
96136vdb-entry

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