CVE-2014-7169

GNU Bourne-Again Shell (Bash) Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

GNU — Bourne-Again Shell (Bash)

Added to KEV catalog: 28 January 2022
Federal remediation due date: 28 July 2022
Weakness classification (CWE): CWE-78

CISA Description

GNU Bash through 4.3 processes trailing strings after function definitions in the values of environment variables, which allows remote attackers to execute code. This CVE correctly remediates the vulnerability in CVE-2014-6271.

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Notes

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-7169

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