CVE-2014-7844

Public on 2015-01-08
Modified on 2015-01-08
Description
A flaw was found in the way mailx handled the parsing of email addresses. A syntactically valid email address could allow a local attacker to cause mailx to execute arbitrary shell commands through shell meta-characters (CVE-2004-2771) and the direct command execution functionality (CVE-2014-7844).
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
3.6
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 mailx 2015-01-08 ALAS-2015-467 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 3.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
NVD CVSSv3 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H