CVE-2014-2905

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Summary

CVECVE-2014-2905
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2014-05-02 14:55:07 UTC
Updated2026-05-06 22:30:45 UTC
Descriptionfish (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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 6.9 from [email protected]

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-264 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Local
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Fishshell Fish 1.16.0 All All All
Application Fishshell Fish 2.0.0 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
oss-security - Upcoming security release of fish 2.1.1 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.openwall.com
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:2177-1: moderate: Security update f af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
/tmp/fishd.socket.user permissions checking (CVE-2014-2905) · Issue #1436 · fish-shell/fish-shell · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 github.com
[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2019:2188-1: moderate: Security update f af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.opensuse.org
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 690250 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for fish (6c083cf8-4830-11e4-ae2c-c80aa9043978)

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