CVE-2014-7844

CWE-74CWE-78 — OS Command Injection13 documents9 sources
Severity
7.8HIGH
EPSS
0.5%
top 32.04%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
9
BSD MailxBSD Mailx Project BSD MailxDebian Debian Linux+6 more
Timeline
PublishedJan 14
Latest updateMay 17

Description

BSD mailx 8.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted email address.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages6 packages

▶Debianbsd-mailx< 8.1.2-0.20141216cvs-1+3
▶CVEListV5bsd/mailx8.1.2 and earlier

Also affects: Debian Linux 7.0, Enterprise Linux 6.6, 7.3, 7.4, 7.6, 7.7, 7.2, 7.5

Patches

Patch: seclists.org ↗Patch: seclists.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-v8v3-2m82-gr7p: BSD mailx 8↗2022-05-17
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CVEList
CVE-2014-7844: BSD mailx 8↗2020-01-14
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OSV
CVE-2014-7844: BSD mailx 8↗2020-01-14
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📋Vendor Advisories

5
Ubuntu
bsd-mailx vulnerability↗2015-01-07
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Red Hat
mailx: command execution flaw↗2014-12-16
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Red Hat
mailx: command execution flaw↗2014-12-16
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Debian
CVE-2014-7844: bsd-mailx - BSD mailx 8.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary command...↗2014
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Apple
CVE-2014-7844: OS X Yosemite v10.10.5 and Security Update 2015-006↗
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💬Community

4
Bugzilla
CVE-2004-2771 CVE-2014-7844 nail: mailx: command execution flaw [epel-5]↗2014-12-17
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Bugzilla
CVE-2004-2771 CVE-2014-7844 mailx: command execution flaw [fedora-all]↗2014-12-16
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Bugzilla
CVE-2004-2771 CVE-2014-7844 bsd-mailx: mailx: command execution flaw [epel-6]↗2014-12-16
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Bugzilla
CVE-2004-2771 CVE-2014-7844 mailx: command execution flaw↗2014-11-11
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