CVE-2007-1400

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-03-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Plash permits sandboxed processes to open /dev/tty, which allows local users to escape sandbox restrictions and execute arbitrary commands by sending characters to a shell process on the same termimal via the TIOCSTI ioctl.

Affected products

Plesh: all versions

References

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/plash/2007-03/msg00000.html
http://plash.beasts.org/wiki/PlashIssues/TtyVulnerability
http://secunia.com/advisories/24498
http://www.osvdb.org/32598
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22892
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0909
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/plash/2007-03/msg00000.html
http://plash.beasts.org/wiki/PlashIssues/TtyVulnerability
http://secunia.com/advisories/24498
http://www.osvdb.org/32598
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22892
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0909

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