What is CVE-2014-3219?

CVE-2014-3219 is a high-severity vulnerability in Fishshell Fish, classified under Improper Link Resolution Before File Access. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2018-02-09.

How severe is CVE-2014-3219?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Fishshell Fish

CVE-2014-3219

fish before 2.1.1 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/fishd.log.%s, (2) /tmp/.pac-cache.$USER, (3) /tmp/.yum-cache.$USER, or (4) /tmp/.rpm-cache.$USER.

Published 2018-02-09 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (34.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 35th percentile — 34.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Fishshell Fish
Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 19

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-59 — Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

References

security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-49.xml (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132751.html (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/28/8 (mailing-list, Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/commit/3225d7e169a9edb2f470c26989e7bc8e0d0355ce (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/06/3 (mailing-list, Patch, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/1440 (Third Party Advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Patch, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/67115 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00059.html (vendor-advisory)
lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00071.html (vendor-advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2014-3219?: CVE-2014-3219 is a high-severity vulnerability in Fishshell Fish, classified under Improper Link Resolution Before File Access. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2018-02-09.
How severe is CVE-2014-3219?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.