CVEs-PoC/2014/CVE-2014-2886.md

CVE-2014-2886

Description

GKSu 2.0.2, when sudo-mode is not enabled, uses " (double quote) characters in a gksu-run-helper argument, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands in certain situations involving an untrusted substring within this argument, as demonstrated by an untrusted filename encountered during installation of a VirtualBox extension pack.

POC

Reference

No PoCs from references.

Github

• https://github.com/andir/nixos-issue-db-example