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CVE-2014-2886

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2014-09-18 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

GKSu 2.0.2, when sudo-mode is not enabled, uses " (double quote) characters in a gksu-run-helper argument, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands in certain situations involving an untrusted substring within this argument, as demonstrated by an untrusted filename encountered during installation of a VirtualBox extension pack.

Affected products

• Nongnu Gksu: 2.0.2

References

• http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?40023
• https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2014/07/07/virtualbox-filename-command-execution-via-gksu
• https://launchpad.net/bugs/1186676
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-10
• http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?40023
• https://community.rapid7.com/community/metasploit/blog/2014/07/07/virtualbox-filename-command-execution-via-gksu
• https://launchpad.net/bugs/1186676
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-10

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