{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2014-6278 in the wild since at least 2 Oct 2025.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch. US federal agencies must fix it by 23 Oct 2025.","what":"CVE-2014-6278 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in n/a, published on 30 Sep 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2014-6278 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2014-6278 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in n/a, published on 30 Sep 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: Yes. Attackers have exploited CVE-2014-6278 in the wild since at least 2 Oct 2025.\n\nAffected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-6278/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-6278/index.md)","id":"CVE-2014-6278","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-6278/index.md","name":"CVE-2014-6278","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2014-6278","GHSA-6493-28fj-f93w","UBUNTU-CVE-2014-6278"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"GNU Bash shell","requires_auth":"none","summary":"Remote attackers can execute arbitrary commands via crafted environment variables due to improper parsing of function definitions in GNU Bash.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"command_injection"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"debian","cpe":[{"product":"bash","vendor":"gnu"}],"cvss":{"score":8.8,"severity":"high","source":"cisa-adp","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-78","name":"Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command"}],"description":"GNU Bash through 4.3 bash43-026 does not properly parse function definitions in the values of environment variables, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted environment, as demonstrated by vectors involving the ForceCommand feature in OpenSSH sshd, the mod_cgi and mod_cgid modules in the Apache HTTP Server, scripts executed by unspecified DHCP clients, and other situations in which setting the environment occurs across a privilege boundary from Bash execution.  NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2014-6271, CVE-2014-7169, and CVE-2014-6277.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":5,"first_seen":"2014-09-24","github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":3,"nuclei":0,"refs":[{"date":"2014-09-24","kind":"metasploit","ref":"auxiliary/scanner/http/apache_mod_cgi_bash_env","stars":null,"title":"Apache mod_cgi Bash Environment Variable Injection (Shellshock) Scanner"},{"date":"2014-09-24","kind":"metasploit","ref":"exploit/multi/http/apache_mod_cgi_bash_env_exec","stars":null,"title":"Apache mod_cgi Bash Environment Variable Code Injection (Shellshock)"},{"date":"2014-09-24","kind":"metasploit","ref":"exploit/multi/http/cups_bash_env_exec","stars":null,"title":"CUPS Filter Bash Environment Variable Code Injection (Shellshock)"},{"date":"2014-09-29","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"36933","stars":null,"title":"dhclient 4.1 - Bash Environment Variable Command Injection (Shellshock)"},{"date":"2014-10-02","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"34860","stars":null,"title":"GNU bash 4.3.11 - Environment Variable dhclient"},{"date":"2014-10-06","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"34900","stars":null,"title":"Apache mod_cgi - 'Shellshock' Remote Command Injection"},{"date":"2016-03-16","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"39568","stars":null,"title":"Cisco UCS Manager 2.1(1b) - Remote Command Injection (Shellshock)"},{"date":"2016-06-06","kind":"exploitdb","ref":"39887","stars":null,"title":"Sun Secure Global Desktop and Oracle Global Desktop 4.61.915 - Command Injection (Shellshock)"}],"tier":"exploited"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"GNU Bash OS Command Injection","id":"CVE-2014-6278","indexable":true,"kev":{"dateAdded":"2025-10-02","dueDate":"2025-10-23","knownRansomwareCampaignUse":"Unknown","product":"GNU Bash","requiredAction":"Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. ","vendorProject":"GNU","vulnerabilityName":"GNU Bash OS Command Injection Vulnerability"},"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"command_injection","year":"2014"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":115,"next":{"headline":"Cross-site scripting in n/a","id":"CVE-2014-6280"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Code injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2014-6277"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2014-09-30","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2014-7186","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2014-09-28"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2014-7187","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2014-09-28"},{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"Code injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2014-6277","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2014-09-27"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in bash","id":"CVE-2022-3715","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-01-05"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2019-18276","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2019-11-28"},{"cvss_score":7.8,"headline":"Command injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2017-5932","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2017-03-27"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"open","licence":"CC0 1.0","name":"CISA KEV"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"BSD-3-Clause","name":"Metasploit"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"GPL-2.0-or-later","name":"Exploit-DB"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"active","technical_impact":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-12-30","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"Remote attackers can execute arbitrary commands via crafted environment variables due to improper parsing of function definitions in GNU Bash.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2014-6278/"}