CVE-2014-9447

Elfutils vulnerability

CVSS

6.4

EPSS

5.0%

EPSS pct

91th

Exploited

No known

Directory traversal vulnerability in the read_long_names function in libelf/elf_begin.c in elfutils 0.152 and 0.161 allows remote attackers to write to arbitrary files to the root directory via a / (slash) in a crafted archive, as demonstrated using the ar program.

Affected vendor

Elfutils Project

Affected product

Elfutils

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-22 — Path Traversal

Published

2015-01-02

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 5.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

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