Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Fish - CVE-2014-2905
Published: May 2, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU41726
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-2905
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Jichensheng
Affected software:
Fish
Fish
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code.
fish (aka fish-shell) 1.16.0 before 2.1.1 does not properly check the credentials, which allows local users to gain privileges via the universal variable socket, related to /tmp/fishd.socket.user permissions.
How to mitigate CVE-2014-2905
Install update from vendor's website.