CVE-2014-7180

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-10-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Electric Cloud ElectricCommander before 4.2.6 and 5.x before 5.0.3 uses world-writable permissions for (1) eccert.pl and (2) ecconfigure.pl, which allows local users to execute arbitrary Perl code by modifying these files.

Affected products

Electric Cloud Electriccommander: through 4.2.5; 5.0.0, 5.0.1, 5.0.2

References

http://docs.electric-cloud.com/commander_doc/5_0_3/HTML5/ReleaseNotes/commander_releasenotes.htm
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/128819/ElectricCommander-4.2.4.71224-Privilege-Escalation.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Oct/104
http://www.secureworks.com/advisories/SWRX-2014-010/SWRX-2014-010.pdf
http://www.secureworks.com/cyber-threat-intelligence/advisories/SWRX-2014-010/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/70722
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/97735
http://docs.electric-cloud.com/commander_doc/5_0_3/HTML5/ReleaseNotes/commander_releasenotes.htm
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/128819/ElectricCommander-4.2.4.71224-Privilege-Escalation.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Oct/104
http://www.secureworks.com/advisories/SWRX-2014-010/SWRX-2014-010.pdf
http://www.secureworks.com/cyber-threat-intelligence/advisories/SWRX-2014-010/

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