CVE-2014-10070 Privilege escalation in n/a
Local attackers can escalate privileges via zsh if environment variables are not sanitized during privilege elevation, requiring non-default sudo configurations.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2014-10070?
CVE-2014-10070 is a high-severity vulnerability in n/a, published on 27 Feb 2018. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
zsh before 5.0.7 allows evaluation of the initial values of integer variables imported from the environment (instead of treating them as literal numbers). That could allow local privilege escalation, under some specific and atypical conditions where zsh is being invoked in privilege-elevation contexts when the environment has not been properly sanitized, such as when zsh is invoked by sudo on systems where "env_reset" has been disabled.
Weakness: CWE-264
Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-10070?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Zsh Project Zsh.
How do I fix CVE-2014-10070?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Is CVE-2014-10070 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-10070 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in n/a
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-10070, GHSA-4x2g-x3r2-29r6, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-10070.