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CVE-2014-0177
The am function in lib/hub/commands.rb in hub before 1.12.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a…
- 3.6LowCVSS base score
- 0.39%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 67% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The am function in lib/hub/commands.rb in hub before 1.12.1 allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a temporary patch file.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 6 months later
· 6 months later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 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 | 2.0 | Low3.6 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.39% · top 67% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 3.6.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/github/hubGHSA-x5m6-jh4r-34mv (opens in a new tab)
- RubyGemshubGHSA-x5m6-jh4r-34mv (opens in a new tab)
References
2
- 58273 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://github.com/github/hub/commit/016ec99d25b1cb83cb4367e541177aa431beb600 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2022-1248 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-x5m6-jh4r-34mv (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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