Catfish up to 1.0.0 access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Catfish up to 1.0.0. It has been classified as problematic. This impacts an unknown function. The manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2014-2096. There is no exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Catfish up to 1.0.0. This issue affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Untrusted search path vulnerability in Catfish 0.6.0 through 1.0.0 allows local users to gain privileges via a Trojan horse bin/catfish.py under the current working directory.

The weakness was shared 02/26/2014 as Bug 1069396 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared at bugzilla.redhat.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2014-2096 since 02/24/2014. The exploitation is known to be easy. An attack has to be approached locally. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 77190 (GLSA-201408-04 : Catfish: Multiple Vulnerabilities), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Gentoo Local Security Checks. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 121938 (Fedora Security Update for catfish (FEDORA-2014-3453)).

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 (91523), Tenable (77190), SecurityFocus (BID 65794†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-45249†). The entries VDB-66448, VDB-66447 and VDB-66446 are related to this item. Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 77190
Nessus Name: GLSA-201408-04 : Catfish: Multiple Vulnerabilities
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OpenVAS ID: 867617
OpenVAS Name: Fedora Update for catfish FEDORA-2014-3453
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: Bug 1069396
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2014-2096 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2014-2096
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-66449
X-Force: 91523
SecurityFocus: 65794 - Catfish CVE-2014-2096 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
Vulnerability Center: 45249 - Catfish 0.6.0 Through 1.0.0 Local Host Privilege via the catfish.py Trojan Horse - CVE-2014-2096, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/24/2015 15:54
Updated: 04/12/2025 15:41
Changes: 03/24/2015 15:54 (61), 06/01/2017 08:06 (8), 02/01/2022 22:42 (3), 04/12/2025 15:41 (15)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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