Path Traversal in GNU Glibc

CVE-2014-0475

Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.20 allow context-dependent attackers to bypass ForceCommand restrictions and possibly have other unspecified impact via a .. (dot dot) in a (1) LC_*, (2) LANG, or other locale environment variable.

Vulnerability class: Path Traversal (Directory Traversal)

EPSS: 0.027 (84.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Gnu Glibc — versions 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References