Vulnerability in Fishshell Fish

CVE-2014-2905

fish (aka fish-shell) 1.16.0 before 2.1.1 does not properly check the credentials, which allows local users to gain privileges via the universal variable socket, related to /tmp/fishd.socket.user permissions.

EPSS: 0.004 (27.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Fishshell Fish — versions 1.16.0, 2.0.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-264

References

cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST)
cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)
cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE)