CVE detail

CVE-2019-14868 — CVE-2019-14868

Published 2020-04-02 · Modified 2026-06-17 · Vendor ksh_project · Product ksh · Source nvd

HIGH

severity

CVSS-derived band

7.4

CVSS v3

0–10 scale

0.0138

EPSS probability

exploitation probability, 30d

70.0%

EPSS percentile

percentile vs all CVEs

NOT LISTED

CISA KEV

known exploited catalog

Description

In ksh version 20120801, a flaw was found in the way it evaluates certain environment variables. An attacker could use this flaw to override or bypass environment restrictions to execute shell commands. Services and applications that allow remote unauthenticated attackers to provide one of those environment variables could allow them to exploit this issue remotely.

Remediation

No vendor-published fix data in our corpus for this CVE. Check the references below or the vendor's PSIRT / security advisories page.

References

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