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critical 9.8

CVE-2014-0156 json

OS Command Injection in awesome spawn

published 4y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-qpqw-mc85-qvm9 , EUVD-2022-6402

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.9%
EPSS 2.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • rubygems awesome_spawn 1.2.0
  • manageiq awesomespawn 1.5.0

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2014-0156 updated cvss 8.1

awesome_spawn: OS command injection vulnerability

  • Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5 cfme-gemset
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.92% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
GitHub 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
rubygems awesome_spawn
<1.2.0
1.2.0

Affected products

  • n/a awesome_spawn

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command

References

Sources

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