Catfish 0.4.0/0.4.0.1/0.4.0.2/0.4.0.3 access control

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Catfish 0.4.0/0.4.0.1/0.4.0.2/0.4.0.3. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-264. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Catfish through 0.4.0.3, when a Fedora package such as 0.4.0.2-2 is not used, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse catfish.pyc in the current working directory.

The weakness was disclosed 02/26/2014 as Bug 1069396 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). It is possible to read the advisory at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2014-2094 since 02/24/2014. The exploitability is told to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 73108 (Fedora 19 : catfish-0.4.0.2-4.fc19 (2014-3453)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Fedora Local Security Checks.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (91521), Tenable (73108), SecurityFocus (BID 65791†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-45275†). The entries VDB-66449, VDB-66448 and VDB-66446 are pretty similar.

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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Nessus ID: 73108
Nessus Name: Fedora 19 : catfish-0.4.0.2-4.fc19 (2014-3453)
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OpenVAS ID: 18627
OpenVAS Name: Gentoo Linux Local Check: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201408-04
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Advisory: Bug 1069396
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2014-2094 (🔍)
X-Force: 91521
SecurityFocus: 65791 - Catfish CVE-2014-2094 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Vulnerability Center: 45275 - Catfish Through 0.4.0.3 Local Host Privilege via the catfish.pyc Trojan Horse - CVE-2014-2094, Medium

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Created: 03/24/2015 03:54 PM
Updated: 02/01/2022 10:24 PM
Changes: 03/24/2015 03:54 PM (56), 06/01/2017 08:14 AM (11), 02/01/2022 10:24 PM (3)
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