CVEvulnerability

CVE-1999-0491

4.6 MEDIUM Published 1999-04-20 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
1999-04-20
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-94

Description

The prompt parsing in bash allows a local user to execute commands as another user by creating a directory with the name of the command to execute.

Affected configurations

• gnu bash (<= 2.04) • gnu bash 1.14.0 • gnu bash 1.14.1 • gnu bash 1.14.2 • gnu bash 1.14.3 • gnu bash 1.14.4 • gnu bash 1.14.5 • gnu bash 1.14.6 • gnu bash 1.14.7 • gnu bash 2.0 • gnu bash 2.01 • gnu bash 2.01.1 • gnu bash 2.02 • gnu bash 2.02.1 • gnu bash 2.03 • gnu bash 2.05

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness

References