CVE-2014-2094 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Catfish through 0.4.0.3, when a Fedora package such as 0.4.0.2-2 is not used, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse catfish.pyc in the current working directory.

Published: 2014-02-26

Score: 4.6 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:catfish_project:catfish:0.4.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:catfish_project:catfish:0.4.0.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:catfish_project:catfish:0.4.0.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:catfish_project:catfish:0.4.0.3:::::::*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2014-2134	Untrusted search path vulnerability in Catfish through 0.4.0.3, when a Fedora package such as 0.4.0.2-2 is not used, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse catfish.pyc in the current working directory.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00417.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/25/2
http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/25/4
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=739958
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1069396

History

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Subscriptions

Catfish Project Catfish

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2014-02-26T11:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T10:05:57.932Z

Reserved: 2014-02-24T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-2094

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2014-02-26T14:55:08.567

Modified: 2026-06-17T00:06:03.580

Link: CVE-2014-2094

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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