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CVE-2014-0479

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2014-08-06 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-94

Description

reportbug before 6.4.4+deb7u1 and 6.5.x before 6.5.0+nmu1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via vectors related to compare_versions and reportbug/checkversions.py.

Affected products

• Canonical Reportbug: through 6.5.0
• Debian Reportbug: through 6.4.4

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/59896
• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2997
• http://www.osvdb.org/109858
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69055
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/reportbug/+bug/1353046
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95149
• http://secunia.com/advisories/59896
• http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2997
• http://www.osvdb.org/109858
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69055
• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/reportbug/+bug/1353046
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95149

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