CVE-2014-3219

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
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: 2018-02-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-59

Description

fish before 2.1.1 allows local users to write to arbitrary files via a symlink attack on (1) /tmp/fishd.log.%s, (2) /tmp/.pac-cache.$USER, (3) /tmp/.yum-cache.$USER, or (4) /tmp/.rpm-cache.$USER.

Affected products

Fedoraproject Fedora: 19
fish-shell: before 2.1.1 — fixed in 2.1.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: fish-shell 2.1.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132751.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00059.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00071.html
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201412-49.xml
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/05/06/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/09/28/8
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67115
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1092091
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/commit/3225d7e169a9edb2f470c26989e7bc8e0d0355ce
https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/1440
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-May/132751.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00059.html

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