CVE-2014-3219

CVE-2014-3219 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in fish shell versions prior to 2.1.1, affecting Fedora and fishshell products. An attacker can exploit this by creating symbolic links to arbitrary files, allowing them to write to those files through specific temporary log or cache files. This vulnerability carries a CVSS v3 score of 7.8 (High), indicating a low attack complexity and requiring local user access, but potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.