PT-2014-4946 · Gnu+1 · Gksu+1

Victor Engmark + 1 · Published 2014-09-18 · Updated 2018-12-31 · CVE-2014-2886

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GKSu version 2.0.2

Description The issue allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands in certain situations when an untrusted substring is present within a gksu-run-helper argument. This can occur, for example, during the installation of a VirtualBox extension pack when an untrusted filename is encountered.

Recommendations For GKSu version 2.0.2, consider enabling sudo-mode to mitigate the risk of arbitrary command execution. As a temporary workaround, restrict the use of gksu-run-helper with untrusted filenames until a patch is available.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-2886

Affected Products

Gksu

Virtualbox

References · 8

• 🔥 https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2014/07/07/virtualbox-filename-command-execution-via-gksu · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-2886 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-2886 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-2886 · Security Note
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-10 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-2886 · Security Note
• https://launchpad.net/bugs/1186676 · Note
• http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?40023 · Note