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CVE-2014-2905

• 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: 2014-05-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

fish (aka fish-shell) 1.16.0 before 2.1.1 does not properly check the credentials, which allows local users to gain privileges via the universal variable socket, related to /tmp/fishd.socket.user permissions.

Affected products

• fish-shell: 1.16.0, 2.0.0

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00059.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00071.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/28/4
• https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/1436
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00059.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00071.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/04/28/4
• https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/1436

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