CVE-2014-2528

Severity

68%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

106%

CWE-77: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')

kcleanup.cpp in KDirStat 2.7.3 does not properly quote strings when deleting a directory, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a ' (single quote) character in the directory name, a different vulnerability than CVE-2014-2527.

CWE-77: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.8. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 10 years ago

2014-08-26 14:55:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:27:00

Affected Software

KDirStat 2.7.3

2.7.3

OpenSUSE 13.1

13.1

References

openSUSE-SU-2014:0984

Vendor Advisory

[oss-security] 20140317 CVE request: kdirstat, insufficient quote escaping leading to arbitrary command execution

[oss-security] 20140318 Re: CVE request: kdirstat, insufficient quote escaping leading to arbitrary command execution

Patch

https://bitbucket.org/jeromerobert/k4dirstat/commits/1ad2e96d73fa06cd9be0f3749b337c03575016aa#chg-src/kcleanup.cpp

Exploit, Patch

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=741659

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