In ksh version 20120801, a flaw was found in the way it evaluates certain environment variables. An attacker could use this flaw to override or bypass environment restrictions to execute shell commands. Services and applications that allow remote unauthenticated attackers to provide one of those environment variables could allow them to exploit this issue remotely.
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Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2284-1 ksh security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-5983 In ksh version 20120801, a flaw was found in the way it evaluates certain environment variables. An attacker could use this flaw to override or bypass environment restrictions to execute shell commands. Services and applications that allow remote unauthenticated attackers to provide one of those environment variables could allow them to exploit this issue remotely.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T00:26:39.141Z

Reserved: 2019-08-10T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2019-14868

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2020-04-02T17:15:13.990

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:27:32.553

Link: CVE-2019-14868

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2019-12-13T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-14868 - Bugzilla

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