CVE-2009-0854

MEDIUM 6.9CVE-2009-0854 · Published 11/03/2009 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2009-0854 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.9) vulnerability affecting dash (dash).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.45%, higher than 39.2% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
dash dash	`= 0.5.4`	No fix yet

Description

Untrusted search path vulnerability in dash 0.5.4, when used as a login shell, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a Trojan horse .profile file in the current working directory.

References

secunia.com/advisories/34205
securityfocus.com/bid/34092
ubuntu.com/usn/USN-732-1
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/49216

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