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CVE-2014-0475
Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.20 allow context-dependent attackers to bypass…
- 6.8MediumCVSS base score
- 2.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 13% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before 2.20 allow context-dependent attackers to bypass ForceCommand restrictions and possibly have other unspecified impact via a .. (dot dot) in a (1) LC_*, (2) LANG, or other locale environment variable.
Timeline
ID reserved
By debian
- 7 months later
· 7 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 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.8% · top 13% 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: Medium 6.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- DSA-2976 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 68505 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1030569 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- RHSA-2014:1110 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20140714 Re: CVE-2014-0475: glibc directory traversal in LC_* locale handling (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- GLSA-201602-02 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17137 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20140710 CVE-2014-0475: glibc directory traversal in LC_* locale handling (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- MDVSA-2014:152 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0092.html (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-2014-0510 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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