CVE-2014-8126

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2014-8126  

Impact: Important Public Date: 2015-01-12 CWE: CWE-78 Bugzilla: 1169800: CVE-2014-8126 condor: mailx invocation enables code execution as condor user The HTCondor scheduler can optionally notify a user of completed jobs by sending an email. Due to the way the daemon sent the email message, authenticated users able to submit jobs could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the condor user.

The HTCondor scheduler can optionally notify a user of completed jobs by sending an email. Due to the way the daemon sent the email message, authenticated users able to submit jobs could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the condor user.

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CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 8.5
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact None

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
MRG Grid for RHEL 5 Server v.2 (condor) RHSA-2015:0036 2015-01-12
Red Hat MRG Grid Execute Node for RHEL 6 ComputeNode v.2 (condor) RHSA-2015:0035 2015-01-12
Red Hat MRG Grid for RHEL 6 Server v.2 (condor) RHSA-2015:0035 2015-01-12

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Florian Weimer of Red Hat Product Security.