Coreutils
CVE-2014-9471
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Impact | CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: network attack vector, low complexity. Public proof-of-concept exploit code is available. EPSS exploitation probability: 5.01%. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | This vulnerability can be exploited remotely over the network. Successful exploitation could compromise the high-severity affected system. |
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The parse_datetime function in GNU coreutils allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted date string, as demonstrated by the. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.5), this vulnerability is remotely exploitable, low attack complexity. Public exploit code available and no vendor patch available.
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No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
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The parse_datetime function in GNU coreutils allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted date string, as demonstrated by the "--date=TZ="123"345" @1" string to the touch or date command. Affected products include: Gnu Coreutils, Canonical Ubuntu Linux.
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionCVE.org
The parse_datetime function in GNU coreutils allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted date string, as demonstrated by the "--date=TZ="123"345" @1" string to the touch or date command.
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Attack Technique
Remote Code Execution represents the critical moment when an attacker successfully runs arbitrary code on a target system without physical access.
Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.
Affected Products (CPE)CVE.org
Recursive chmod operations can bypass --preserve-root protection in uutils coreutils versions prior to 0.6.0, allowing l
Local privilege escalation in uutils coreutils mkfifo allows authenticated users to downgrade permissions on arbitrary f
The ln utility in uutils coreutils fails to process source paths containing non-UTF-8 filename bytes when using target-d
The chmod utility in uutils coreutils versions prior to 0.6.0 incorrectly reports success (exit code 0) when recursively
The mknod utility in uutils coreutils creates device nodes before atomically applying SELinux security labels, and fails
The printenv utility in uutils coreutils versions before 0.6.0 silently omits environment variables containing invalid U
Privilege escalation to root in uutils coreutils chroot utility allows low-privileged local attackers with write access
Bypass of --preserve-root protection in uutils coreutils rm utility allows local users to recursively delete the root fi
Local privilege escalation in uutils coreutils before 0.10.0: the `install` utility applies a requested setuid/setgid mo
Logic error in uutils coreutils cut utility causes incorrect behavior when combining the -s (only-delimited), -z (null-t
The id utility in uutils coreutils displays incorrect effective user information in its pretty-print output when real an
Privilege escalation in uutils coreutils mkfifo utility allows local attackers with low privileges to manipulate file pe
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