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CVE-2014-4677

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-02-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-77

Description

The installPackage function in the installerHelper subcomponent in Libmacgpg in GPG Suite before 2015.06 allows local users to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges via shell metacharacters in the xmlPath argument.

Affected products

• Gpgtools Libmacgpg: through 0.6

References

• https://bierbaumer.net/security/cve-2014-4677/
• https://gpgtools.org/releases/gpgsuite/2015.08/release-notes.html
• https://bierbaumer.net/security/cve-2014-4677/
• https://gpgtools.org/releases/gpgsuite/2015.08/release-notes.html

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