CVE-2014-7817

EPSS 0.16%

Published: 11/24/2014Modified: 4/28/2026

Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2014-7817

Description

The wordexp function in GNU C Library (aka glibc) 2.21 does not enforce the WRDE_NOCMD flag, which allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands, as demonstrated by input containing "$((`...`))".

Affected packages (1)

Debian/glibcfrom 0, < 2.19-14

References (1)

ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-7817