CVEvulnerability

CVE-2019-9891

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2019-05-31 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2019-05-31
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-94

Description

The function getopt_simple as described in Advanced Bash Scripting Guide (ISBN 978-1435752184) allows privilege escalation and execution of commands when used in a shell script called, for example, via sudo.

Affected configurations

• tldp advanced bash-scripting guide

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code weakness

References