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CVSSv2

CVE-2019-9891

Published: 31/05/2019 Updated: 24/08/2020
CVSS v2 Base Score: 10 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 10
CVSS v3 Base Score: 9.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 890
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

The function getopt_simple as described in Advanced Bash Scripting Guide (ISBN 978-1435752184) allows privilege escalation and execution of commands when used in a shell script called, for example, via sudo.

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Exploits

RedTeam Pentesting discovered that the shell function "getopt_simple", as presented in the "Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide", allows execution of attacker-controlled commands ...