CVE-2015-4035

xzgrep: incorrect parsing of filenames containing a semicolon

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.4

CVSS 2.0

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Published · May 18, 2015

Updated · May 13, 2026

Description

It was discovered that the xzgrep's xz helper script did not properly sanitize certain file names. A local attacker could use this flaw to inject and execute arbitrary commands by tricking a user into running the xzgrep script on a file with a specially crafted file name.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.4
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWE-88 · Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')