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CVE-2014-5220

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-5220 describes a command injection vulnerability in the mdcheck script of the mdadm package for openSUSE 13.2 prior to version 3.3.1-5.14.1, allowing local attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root due to improper sanitization of device names. With a CVSS v3 score of 7.8 (High), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires local user privileges, but can lead to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
13.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
< 3.3.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mdadm_project:mdadm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.8HIGH

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.51%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
40.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0050 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 16,985 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-5220Moderate

mdadm: Improper sanitization of device names allows arbitrary command execution

Dec 17, 2014

References

bugzilla.suse.com / show_bug.cgi
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00069.html