CVE-2014-2886

Exp

GKSu 2.0.2, when sudo-mode is not enabled, uses " (double quote) characters in a gksu-run-helper argument, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands in certain situations involving an untrusted substring within this argument, as demonstrated by an untrusted filename encountered during installation of a VirtualBox extension pack.

Published: 2014-09-18 Last update: 2026-06-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2014-2886 is rated High Exploit Risk (72/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.19%). 1 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +1.75% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2014-2886

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-2886

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.44% 2.19% +1.75%
2 2025-03-30 0.68% 0.44% -0.23%
3 2025-03-29 — 0.68% —

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-2886

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.8 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 8.6 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2014-2886

OS Trackers for CVE-2014-2886

vendor priority summary link
gentoo normal CVE-2014-2886: 1 GLSA(s) (201812-10), 1 atom(s) (x11-libs/gksu); latest impact normal. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2014-2886
ubuntu low CVE-2014-2886 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (gksu), 27 status rows across 27 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lucid, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, precise, questing, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): DNE 16, ignored 8, needed 3. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-2886

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-2886

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
nongnu gksu 2.0.2 cpe:2.3:a:nongnu:gksu:2.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2014-2886

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