CWE
94
Advisory Published
CVE Published
Updated

CVE-1999-0491: Code Injection

First published: Tue Apr 20 1999(Updated: )

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.

Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
GNU Bash=1.14.3
GNU Bash=2.05-a
GNU Bash=2.05
GNU Bash=1.14.1
GNU Bash=2.01
GNU Bash=2.0
GNU Bash=2.01.1
GNU Bash=1.14.7
GNU Bash=1.14.6
GNU Bash=1.14.2
GNU Bash=1.14.4
GNU Bash=2.02.1
GNU Bash=1.14.5
GNU Bash=1.14.0
GNU Bash=2.02
GNU Bash<=2.04
GNU Bash=2.03

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