CVE-2018-13259 (GCVE-0-2018-13259)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-09-05 07:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 09:00
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
An issue was discovered in zsh before 5.6. Shebang lines exceeding 64 characters were truncated, potentially leading to an execve call to a program name that is a substring of the intended one.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CWE
- improper parsing
Assigner
References
7 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://bugs.debian.org/908000 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://sourceforge.net/p/zsh/code/ci/1c4c7b6a4d1… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://www.zsh.org/mla/zsh-announce/136 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://usn.ubuntu.com/3764-1/ | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201903-02 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2017 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n/a | zsh before 5.6 |
Affected:
zsh before 5.6
|
Date Public
2018-09-05 00:00
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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