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CVE-2014-7817

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-7817 describes a vulnerability in the wordexp function of GNU C Library (glibc) 2.21, affecting products from Canonical, Debian, GNU, and openSUSE. This flaw allows local, unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary commands by bypassing the WRDE_NOCMD flag, as demonstrated with specific input. With a CVSS score of 4.6, it presents a low attack complexity but could lead to partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
10.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:10.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
12.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:12.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
14.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.6MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.58%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
44.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0058 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 3,052 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Vendor Patches (2)

debianvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch
susevendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
View patch

References

linux.oracle.com / errata/ELSA-2015-0016.html
linux.oracle.com / errata/ELSA-2015-0092.html
Vendor Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-02/msg00089.html
Vendor Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2014-2023.html
Vendor Advisory
seclists.org / oss-sec/2014/q4/730
secunia.com / advisories/62100
secunia.com / advisories/62146
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/98852
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201602-02
sourceware.org / bugzilla/show_bug.cgi
sourceware.org / git/gitweb.cgi
sourceware.org / ml/libc-alpha/2014-11/msg00519.html
Vendor Advisory
debian.org / security/2015/dsa-3142
Vendor Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpujan2018-3236628.html
oracle.com / technetwork/security-advisory/cpuoct2018-4428296.html
securityfocus.com / bid/71216
ubuntu.com / usn/USN-2432-1