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CVE-2014-0156

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-06-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

Awesome spawn contains OS command injection vulnerability, which allows execution of additional commands passed to Awesome spawn as arguments. If untrusted input was included in command arguments, attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary command.

Affected products

• awesome_spawn: from 1.2.0 before 1.5.0 — fixed in 1.5.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: awesome_spawn 1.5.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/ManageIQ/awesome_spawn/commit/e524f85f1c6e292ef7d117d7818521307ac269ff
• https://rubysec.com/advisories/CVE-2014-0156/
• https://github.com/ManageIQ/awesome_spawn/commit/e524f85f1c6e292ef7d117d7818521307ac269ff
• https://rubysec.com/advisories/CVE-2014-0156/

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