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CVE-2023-49284

17
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-49284 is a design flaw in the fish shell, affecting all versions released in the last 15+ years. The vulnerability stems from the shell's incorrect handling of internal Unicode non-characters in command substitution output, allowing them to be read rather than safely transformed. Rated 6.6 Medium (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H), this flaw could lead to denial of service or information disclosure, though code execution is not possible. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability. Users are advised to upgrade to fish shell 3.6.2 to remediate the issue.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:fishshell:fish:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

3.9LOW

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
1.3
Impact Score
2.5
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.47%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
38.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0047 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 381 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 fish 3.6.2-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 3.6.2-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18240-16823Fixed in: 3.6.2-1

Vendor Advisories (1)

microsoft2023-Dec/CVE-2023-49284Moderate

Command substitution output can trigger shell expansion in fish shell

Dec 12, 2023

References

github.com / fish-shell/fish-shell/commit/09986f5563e31e2c900a606438f1d60d008f3a14
Patch
github.com / fish-shell/fish-shell/security/advisories/GHSA-2j9r-pm96-wp4f
ExploitVendor Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2023/12/08/1