Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-0479

RCE

Title: Canonical Reportbug RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-0479.

CWE Category CWE-94

Published Date Aug 06, 2014

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.73%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-0479: reportbug before 6.4.4+deb7u1 and 6.5.x before 6.5.0+nmu1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via vectors related to compare_versions and reportbug/checkversions.py.

Impacted Vendors

debian 1

reportbug-ng 1

canonical 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/59896 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2997 http://www.osvdb.org/109858 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69055 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/reportbug/+bug/1353046 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95149 http://secunia.com/advisories/59896 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-2997 http://www.osvdb.org/109858 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/69055 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/reportbug/+bug/1353046 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/95149

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-0479 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 06, 2014 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.