CVE-2014-7169
Actively exploited. CVE-2014-7169 is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-01-28) — exploitation has been observed in the wild, and US federal agencies are required to remediate it under BOD 22-01. Treat patching as urgent.
Public exploit code is available. Proof-of-concept or working exploit code for CVE-2014-7169 is indexed in Exploit-DB and GitHub PoC. Expect opportunistic scanning and exploitation attempts — prioritize remediation.
GNU Bash through 4.3 processes trailing strings after function definitions in the values of environment variables, which allows remote attackers to execute code. This CVE correctly remediates the vulnerability in CVE-2014-6271.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- GNU Bash processes trailing strings after function definitions in the values of environment variables, allowing remote attackers to execute code.
- Who is affected
- Deployments of GNU Bash versions through 4.3.
- Urgency
- Remediation is urgent due to active exploitation and critical severity.
- Action
- Upgrade to a patched version of Bash.
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Exploitation outlook
- Exploitation confirmedAlready exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) — the prediction phase is over. Patch now. Riskier than 100% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Exploit availability
Public exploit or proof-of-concept code for CVE-2014-7169 is indexed in these free datasets. Available exploit code raises real-world risk independent of the CVSS score.
- Exploit-DBA public exploit is published in the Exploit-DB archive.look it up ↗
- GitHub PoCPublic proof-of-concept repositories on GitHub reference this CVE.look it up ↗
Advisory coverage (1)
- criticalexploitedCVE-2014-7169: GNU Bourne-Again Shell (Bash) Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2022-01-28
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