CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-4677
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-02-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-77
Description
The installPackage function in the installerHelper subcomponent in Libmacgpg in GPG Suite before 2015.06 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges via shell metacharacters in the xmlPath argument.
Affected configurations
• gpgtools libmacgpg (<= 0.6)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command weakness
References
- https://bierbaumer.net/security/cve-2014-4677/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://gpgtools.org/releases/gpgsuite/2015.08/release-notes.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://bierbaumer.net/security/cve-2014-4677/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://gpgtools.org/releases/gpgsuite/2015.08/release-notes.html Release Notes, Vendor Advisory