CVE-2014-0156
Awesome spawn contains OS command injection vulnerability, which allows execution of additional commands passed to Awesome spawn as…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 2.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 13% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Awesome spawn contains OS command injection vulnerability, which allows execution of additional commands passed to Awesome spawn as arguments. If untrusted input was included in command arguments, attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary command.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.9% · top 13% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
awesome_spawn
- affected >1.20, >= 1.30
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsawesome_spawnGHSA-qpqw-mc85-qvm9 (opens in a new tab)
References
2
- https://rubysec.com/advisories/CVE-2014-0156/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://github.com/ManageIQ/awesome_spawn/commit/e524f85f1c6e292ef7d117d7818521307ac269ff (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-6402 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-qpqw-mc85-qvm9 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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