PT-2014-1898 · Catfish · Catfish

Published 2014-02-26 · Updated 2014-08-13 · CVE-2014-2094

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Catfish versions prior to 1.0.2 Catfish through 0.4.0.3

Description The issue allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse catfish.pyc in the current working directory. Exploitation of the vulnerabilities may lead to disruption of confidentiality, integrity, and availability of protected information. The exploitation can be carried out locally.

Recommendations For Catfish versions prior to 1.0.2, update to version 1.0.2 or later to resolve the issue. For Catfish through 0.4.0.3, update to a version later than 0.4.0.3 to mitigate the risk. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the current working directory to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Fix

Related Identifiers

BDU:2015-09766

CVE-2014-2094

Affected Products

Catfish

References · 10

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-2094 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-2094 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-2094 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09766 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-2094 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1069396 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/25/2 · Note
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201408-04.xml · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/02/25/4 · Note
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=739958 · Note