PT-2014-8770 · Lsyncd · Lsyncd

Published 2014-12-05 · Updated 2017-07-01 · CVE-2014-8990

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.5

High

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Lsyncd versions 2.1.5 and earlier

Description The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a filename. This is due to a problem in the default-rsyncssh.lua script.

Recommendations For Lsyncd versions 2.1.5 and earlier, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

RCE

Command Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-77

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-8990

DSA-3130-1

Affected Products

Lsyncd

References · 23

• 🔥 https://github.com/axkibe/lsyncd/commit/18f02ad013b41a72753912155ae2ba72f2a53e52 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/axkibe/lsyncd/commit/e6016b3748370878778b8f0b568d5281cc248aa4 · Exploit
• 🔥 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/20/5 · Exploit
• https://github.com/axkibe/lsyncd/issues/220 · Patch
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145114.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/DSA-3130-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-05 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-8990 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8990 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8990 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8990 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/lsyncd · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-8990 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3130-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145131.html · Vendor Advisory