CVE-2014-8990 Command injection in n/a

What is CVE-2014-8990?

CVE-2014-8990 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 5 Dec 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

default-rsyncssh.lua in Lsyncd 2.1.5 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a filename.

Weakness: CWE-77

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-8990?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Lsyncd Project Lsyncd.

How do I fix CVE-2014-8990?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2014-8990 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-8990 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-8990, DSA-3130-1, GHSA-2jg7-cr9w-6gw3.