CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-7543

8.4 HIGH Published 2017-01-19 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-01-19
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
8.4 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/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-20

Description

Bash before 4.4 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges via crafted SHELLOPTS and PS4 environment variables.

Affected configurations

• gnu bash (<= 4.3) • fedoraproject fedora 23 • fedoraproject fedora 24 • fedoraproject fedora 25

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References