CVE-2014-8126

Description

The HTCondor scheduler can optionally notify a user of completed jobs by sending an email. Due to the way the daemon sent the email message, authenticated users able to submit jobs could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the condor user.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Score Details

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CVSS v2 Score Breakdown

Red HatNVDcve.org
Base Score8.56.5N/A
Attack VectorNetworkNetworkN/A
Access ComplexityLowLowN/A
AuthenticationSingleSingleN/A
Confidentiality ImpactCompletePartialN/A
Integrity ImpactCompletePartialN/A
Availability ImpactNonePartialN/A

Vector

Red Hat: AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:N

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

Understanding the Weakness (CWE)

CWE-78

Confidentiality,Integrity,Availability,Non-Repudiation

Technical Impact: Execute Unauthorized Code or Commands; DoS: Crash, Exit, or Restart; Read Files or Directories; Modify Files or Directories; Read Application Data; Modify Application Data; Hide Activities

Attackers could execute unauthorized operating system commands, which could then be used to disable the product, or read and modify data for which the attacker does not have permissions to access directly. Since the targeted application is directly executing the commands instead of the attacker, any malicious activities may appear to come from the application or the application's owner.

Acknowledgements

This issue was discovered by Florian Weimer (Red Hat Product Security).

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