CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-7458

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2020-07-09 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-07-09
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-787

Description

In FreeBSD 12.1-STABLE before r362281, 11.4-STABLE before r362281, and 11.4-RELEASE before p1, long values in the user-controlled PATH environment variable cause posix_spawnp to write beyond the end of the heap allocated stack possibly leading to arbitrary code execution.

Affected configurations

• freebsd freebsd 11.4 • freebsd freebsd 12.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References