Catfish up to 1.0.0 access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Catfish up to 1.0.0 and classified as problematic. This affects an unknown function. Executing a manipulation can lead to access control. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2014-2095. There is no available exploit.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Catfish up to 1.0.0. This vulnerability affects an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-264. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Catfish 0.6.0 through 1.0.0, when a Fedora package such as 0.8.2-1 is not used, allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse bin/catfish.pyc under the current working directory.

The weakness was presented 02/26/2014 as Bug 1069396 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2014-2095 since 02/24/2014. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 73109 (Fedora 20 : catfish-1.0.1-1.fc20 (2014-3497)), 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 (91522), Tenable (73109), SecurityFocus (BID 65793†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-45276†). See VDB-66449, VDB-66447 and VDB-66446 for similar entries. VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No

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Nessus ID: 73109
Nessus Name: Fedora 20 : catfish-1.0.1-1.fc20 (2014-3497)
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OpenVAS ID: 18627
OpenVAS Name: Gentoo Linux Local Check: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201408-04
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: Bug 1069396
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2014-2095 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2014-2095
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-66448
X-Force: 91522
SecurityFocus: 65793 - Catfish CVE-2014-2095 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Vulnerability Center: 45276 - Catfish 0.6.0-1.0.0 Local Host Privilege via the bin/catfish.pyc Trojan Horse - CVE-2014-2095, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/24/2015 15:54
Updated: 04/12/2025 15:41
Changes: 03/24/2015 15:54 (56), 06/01/2017 08:14 (11), 02/01/2022 22:32 (3), 04/12/2025 15:41 (15)
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