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CVE-2014-4043

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-4043 describes a use-after-free vulnerability in the glibc posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen function, affecting glibc versions prior to 2.20 and various openSUSE products. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered high severity, allowing unauthenticated attackers to achieve partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts over a network. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.19CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
13.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:opensuse:13.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.92%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
89.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0392 is in the 81st percentile among its peer group of 51,551 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 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

Vendor Patches (4)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: glibc
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: glibc
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: glibc
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: glibc

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-4043Low

glibc: posix_spawn_file_actions_addopen fails to copy the path argument

Jun 11, 2014

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2015-08/msg00012.html
packetstormsecurity.com / files/153278/WAGO-852-Industrial-Managed-Switch-Series-Code-Execution-Hardcoded-Credentials.html
packetstormsecurity.com / files/154361/Cisco-Device-Hardcoded-Credentials-GNU-glibc-BusyBox.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Exploit
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2019/Jun/18
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/7
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/93784
seclists.org / bugtraq/2019/Jun/14
seclists.org / bugtraq/2019/Sep/7
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201503-04
sourceware.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
sourceware.org / git/gitweb.cgi
sourceware.org / git/gitweb.cgi
sourceware.org / git/gitweb.cgi
mandriva.com / security/advisories
securityfocus.com / bid/68006