PT-2014-7840 · Gparted+1 · Gparted+1

W. Ettlinger · Published 2014-10-22 · Updated 2021-05-14 · CVE-2014-7208

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.2

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GParted versions prior to 0.15.0

Description The issue allows local users to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges by using shell metacharacters in a crafted filesystem label.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.15.0, update to version 0.15.0 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider avoiding the use of shell metacharacters in filesystem labels until the update is applied.

Exploit

Fix

Command Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-77

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2014-2290

CVE-2014-7208

USN-2471-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Gparted

References · 14

• 🔥 http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Dec/77 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/35595 · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-7208 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-7208 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-7208 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-7208 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-7208 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-7208 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2471-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-7208 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-7208 · Vendor Advisory
• https://errata.altlinux.org/ALT-PU-2014-2290 · Vendor Advisory
• https://packages.altlinux.org/ru/vuln/CVE-2014-7208 · Note
• http://oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjan2015-2370101.html · Note