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Cisco UCS GNU Bash Environment Variable Command Injection Vulnerability (Shellshock)

Information

Severity

Severity

Critical

Family

Family

CISCO

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

10.0

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

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

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

8 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

On September 24, 2014, a vulnerability in the Bash shell was publicly announced. The vulnerability is related to the way in which shell functions are passed though environment variables. The vulnerability may allow an attacker to inject commands into a Bash shell, depending on how the shell is invoked. The Bash shell may be invoked by a number of processes including, but not limited to, telnet, SSH, DHCP, and scripts hosted on web server

Insight

Insight

GNU bash contains a flaw that is triggered when evaluating environment variables passed from another environment. After processing a function definition, bash continues to process trailing strings.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Try to execute the `id' command by sending a crafted HTTP GET request and check the response.

Solution

Solution

See vendor advisory for a solution

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)